Hilchot Shabbat 3:3-4 (Leaving food on a stove over Shabbat)

In our last shiur, we learned that a person may do melacha (forbidden labor) before Shabbat even if it continues on its own on Shabbat – such as lighting a fire on Friday that continues burning throughout the evening. Cooking, however, is a much more complicated matter. Today’s shiur begins to look at the special case of leaving food on the fire over Shabbat.