Timeline for What is the function of covering the stove top on Pesach?
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:42 | history | edited | sabbahillel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | @Pascal I wasn't speaking of a pervasive custom to cover the stove. I was speaking of the practice in some communities to be stringent for the opinion that says the 24 hours leniency doesn't work. You might live in such a community and should speak with your rabbi to determine what your community's practice is. Many Ashkenazi communities only rely on the 24 hour leniency on Pesach in cases of great loss (which wouldn't seem to include not having covered the stove). Many Sefardi communities are lenient entirely. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:34 | comment | added | sabbahillel | Given what is said at various sites, that might be correct, but I would cover it anyway. Note that glass topped stoves have different rules as they may break according to the Star-K. star-k.org/articles/articles/kosher-appliances/2931/… Be careful and of course CYLOR since he would know your specific circumstances and what you have in your kitchen. One could say "better safe than sorry" | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:30 | history | edited | sabbahillel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:21 | comment | added | Pascal | If I understand correctly then, according to the sources Double AA cites, strictly speaking, there's no requirement to cover the stove surface with foil as the flavor particles, which even without the 24 hour leniency (which we don't have to discount) after the surface has been scoured with cleansers days before Pesach are considered completely destroyed (as in Biur chometz) and like dust. However, as per sabbahillel, regardless of what technically may be allowed, we would still cover it anyway due to it being the pervasive custom in our communities. Correct? | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | I meant a custom to be Machmir for Natlap of Chametz, not a custom to cover the stove. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | sabbahillel | @DoubleAA It appears from this and other sites that many communities do have this as a "specific community custom" in order not to have to kasher the entire stove top. I used aish but could have used others. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:24 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Actually according to most Rishonim, the 24 hour leniency does apply on Pesach, and so rules the Shulchan Arukh (OC 447:10). According to the Mishna Berura there, one only needs to be stringent if there is a specific community custom to be. Indeed, flavor particles that sit in your stove top for days are probably included in "Nifsad Legamrei Ad Afra DeAra" which even the stringent opinion would permit. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 18:18 | history | answered | sabbahillel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |