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A cholent crisis? Rabbi’s ruling against Shabbat stew on Thursday nights briefly roils Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY The article discusses a minor upheaval resulting from a recent ruling by Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein, which suggested that eating cholent, the traditional Ashkenazi Shabbat stew, on weekdays might diminish its sanctity for Shabbat. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Bnei BrakShabbatTraditionCholentHalachaRabbi Yitzchok ZilbersteinGeulaCholent On The RoofHaredi Customs

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Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the citys southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak to just 20 minutes."
Bnei Brak, Central District, Israel
"When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the citys southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak to just 20 minutes."
Jaffa, Central District, Israel
"For me, having a bowl of cholent on Thursday night adds a little bit of Shabbats holiness into the end of the week, and deepens my connection to the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and people, said Eliyahu Freedman, who regularly travels with his friends from his home in Jaffa to Bnei Brak for the stew."
Jerusalem, Israel
"But the effects of the ruling didnt seem to ripple over into the Thursday-night pop-up restaurants that dot the cholent strongholds of Geula, within Jerusalem, and Bnei Brak."
New York, United States
"The tradition has more recently taken off in haredi strongholds in Brooklyn and Monsey, New York."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"The tradition has more recently taken off in haredi strongholds in Brooklyn and Monsey, New York."
Monsey, New York, United States
"The tradition has more recently taken off in haredi strongholds in Brooklyn and Monsey, New York."

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