Musar for Shabbat 101:13

טמן וכיסה בדבר שאינו ניטל בשבת או שטמן בדבר הניטל בשבת וכיסה בדבר שאינו ניטל בשבת אם היה מגולה מקצתו נוטל ומחזיר ואם לאו

he may add. How does he do it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which the pot is wrapped. ');">²⁴</span> R. Simeon b. Gamaliel said: He may remove the sheets and replace them with blankets, or remove the blankets and replace them with sheets.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According as he desires more or less heat. ');">²⁵</span> And thus did R. Simeon b. Gamaliel say: Only the self-same boiler was forbidden;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., food may not be stored after nightfall in the same pot in which it was cooked. ');">²⁶</span> but if it [the food] was emptied from that boiler into another, it is permitted: seeing that he cools it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By emptying it from one pot into another. ');">²⁷</span> will he indeed heat it up!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely there is no fear of this, which is the reason for the usual prohibition (supra 34a); hence it is permitted. ');">²⁸</span> If one stored [food] in and covered [it] with a substance that may be handled on the Sabbath, or if he stored [it] in something that may not be handled on the Sabbath, but covered [it] with something that may be handled on the Sabbath, he may remove [the covering] and replace it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the cover can be removed, one can take hold of the pot. ');">²⁹</span> If one stored [food] in and covered [it] with a substance that may not be handled on the Sabbath, or if he stored (it] in something that may be handled on the Sabbath, but covered it with something that may not be handled on the Sabbath, provided it was partly uncovered, he may take it [out] and replace [it];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since there is something by which he can grasp it. ');">³⁰</span> but if not,

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