Kosher Fireplace by Bloch Design provides state of the art technological solutions for fireplaces to be used on Shabbath and high Holidays in full compliance of Jewish Laws. We design unique contemporary fireplaces for private homes, apartments, hotels, restaurants, lounges, stores, synagogues and community centers worldwide.
Wood burning fireplace or stove was the norm before the twentieth century and as such, it was discussed in the Code of Jewish Law, which ruled that one may ask a non-Jew to load the wood. However, nowadays gas fireplaces are more common and widely use, and our technology allows full control and safety in setting a fire schedule in advance to operate throughout Shabbat and high holidays, and fully comply with Jewish Laws and observance.
Work done before the onset of Shabbat is permitted even if the results of the pre-Shabbat work are felt on shabbat (for example: shabbat candles lit before shabbat continue to burn into Shabbat). In contrast, the Torah prohibits doing one of the 39 labors forbidden on Shabbat itself even if the results could have been achieved by pre-shabbat labor. Adding wood to a fireplace on shabbat violates shabbat as this is one of the 39 prohibited labors. Someone with an electric or gas heater who sets it before shabbat is doing nothing at all on shabbat (theoretically he could sleep throughout Shabbat and the heater would work in exactly the same way). One cannot violate Shabbat on Friday. The Sadducees interpreted the verse that prohibits lighting a fire on shabbat to be a prohibition on having a fire burning on Shabbat. Our disagreement with them is that we allow a fire to burn on shabbat if we do nothing on shabbat itself.
We welcome any comments or requests for your home, synagogue or community center.
