Learn Shabbos...in just 3 minutes a day

Learn Shabbos...in just 3 minutes a day

Rabbi Daniel Braude

Adir Press / 630 Pages

Rabbi Daniel Braude presents a very user-friendly guide for learning Hilchos Shabbos in a simple manner. The sefer is divided into over 400 sections to allow  the reader to read one section, a page or two, per day. Hence the “3 minutes a day” concept.

In impressive breadth, the sefer covers most of the practical questions that arise on Shabbos. This includes everything from preparing for Shabbos on Friday, to all the melachos and their practical ramifications, through to Havdalah and Melaveh Malka.

All the rulings cited generally follow Shulchan Aruch, Mishna Berura, and Shemiras Shabbos K’hilchasa, and are of course, normative. Lot’s of great things on medicine, Amira L’akum, Muktza, Bishul, and Borer. All the common questions and more.

While this sefer is extremely useful and a blessing to those who will study from it, I would have enjoyed the sefer even more if the author would have expanded and cited alternative rulings. In many areas, the rulings cited aren't unanimous and are also sometimes overly stringent. To cite but a few examples, the author ignores the views that allow the use of solar produced hot water on Shabbos, the views that allow putting dry baked food directly on a hotplate, and Rav Moshe’s famous [oral] heter to use vegetable peelers on Shabbos, something that is pretty normative in American homes. That being said, he does cite some leniencies that aren’t entirely unanimous, such as permitting hot plates to be put on timers and the permissibility to wear clothes that were wet before Shabbos but dry in the morning.

This sefer is certainly a great place to turn for those who want a refresher on practical hilchos Shabbos. Easy to use and clear.  Stick with the 3 minutes a day and you will see your hilchos Shabbos knowledge grow quickly. 

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