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rabbiofberlin-

Thank you for your kind words and I am glad you feel inspired.

The truth is I am not sure at the moment what my rav’s reasoning for being matir a microwave for everything is, though I don’t think it has to do with the ???? ??? argument. I will try to look up the teshuva iy”h and post it soon, and I can ask him if there’s a question.

Regarding ?? ???: I don’t fully understand the metzi’us hello99 mentioned about the waves. However I wish to point out that this halacha that when the ????? is ?? ??? it is worse than a regular ???? ???? comes from the Ran (not in front of me but I think it’s 41b in the dafei haRif), who proves this halacha from the fact that the Gemara (Pesachim 76a) says that ???? ???? doesn’t become assur due to the fact that it cools off the top. Says the Ran, where it cannot cool it off because it is still on the fire, you do not have the ???? of the Gemara, and even a case of ???? ???? will be assur. This being the reasoning, ?????? one would be right to assume that one could not differentiate between the locations of any food particles in a microwave, because ?????? one could make the same argument that even if the walls are cold they do not have the power to cool off any of the particles being “bombarded by the waves,” inasmuch as the Ran makes this argument by ?? ???. Therefore in principle I don’t see that hello99 is incorrect.