We estimated, based on texture and looks, that a piece of meat was cooked Kimachol Ben Drusoie and put it on the Blech. On Shabbos when we took the meat off, we realized that it was not cooked (the meat was very red), can we still eat the meat on Shabbos? We have other foods to eat as well for the meat course.

  If you put it on the Blech before Shabbos, you may even put something which is not cooked Kimachol Ben Drusoie. However, so long it’s not fully cooked, you…

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If I have a hat or Tallis (etc.) that is special for Shabbos, and I want to get a nicer one, is there an issue to now wear that item during the week? – whether because the item is being demoted or because its problematic to wear Shabbos clothes during the week?

  There is no Halacha forbidding one from doing so. However, some have adopted a Midas Chassidus not to change the Shabbos clothes to weekday, because of being demoted. This…

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I seem to remember that the Alter Rebbe writes that if a Yid does a Melacha and has a particular purpose in mind and another Yid wants to have Hanoah from the Melacha in a different manner that it is okay? A hypothetical example: If someone comes into my kitchen and puts on the stove to warm up food, can I use the fire on the stove to warm myself up if I am cold? 

  There is no such Halacha in Alter Rebbe Shulchan Aruch. You might be confusing this with something similar; There is a Halacha that one may ask a non-Jew to…

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