Ordering Fresh Food On Shabbat for Someone with an Eating Disorder
QUESTION
Chicago, IL
Someone in our community is engaged in a long-term treatment program for eating disorders. She lives with a group of other women who are patients at the hospital in an apartment down the street from the center where she will spend most of her days. She will be discharged back to her own apartment on Shabbat afternoon, but with no capacity to prepare food. She could eat sandwiches etc., but she raised the possibility of ordering something hot and fresh on GrubHub or a similar app.
I’m thinking that within the parameters of the general pesak that is given for
