Tovelling Commercial Food-Producing Equipment
There are several elements in which leniency can be considered. The gemara says that only klei seuda (literally,...
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Tevillat Keilim{&&} When There Is an Air Pocket
The mishna says that if one puts a kli (utensil) into a mikveh upside down, it is an...
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Does Tasting a Fleishig Crumb Make One Fleishig?
We will first analyze the explanations offered by the Rishonim for the practice of waiting six hours (or...
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Using a Knife Sharpener for Milchig and Fleishig Knives
In order to answer your question, we must address two different scenarios. If you are the first to...
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Kashering a Water Kettle that Came in Contact with Cheese
Had the kettle simply touched a perfectly clean, reasonably dry milchig sink, no kashering would have been necessary....
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Rinsing After Eating Pareve Food Cooked in Fleishig Pot
The matter of milk and meat is one in which halacha employs more stringency than one might expect....
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What May a Slaughterhouse Do With Non-Kosher Byproducts?
You are apparently early in the planning process. In order to run a kosher meat operation, you will...
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Should a Single Man Wear a Tallit?
While your surprise about the practice is understandable, you seem to have overstated the issue. We will explore...
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Is Long Hair a Problem for Tefillin?
Some poskim say that long hair is a chatzitza for tefillin. However, regarding most cases of long hair,...
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One Who Makes the Wrong Beracha on Tefillin Shel Yad
The gemara cites R. Yochanan who says that when fastening the shel yad, one makes the beracha of...
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Kashrut of an Animal Fed Meat and Milk
We will start with your assumption that the feed is fully forbidden as basar b’chalav, the combination of...
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Does Food Stay Pareve in a Cooking Bag?
The answer assumes that the cooking bag prevents noticeable seepage of liquid through the bag. If you cannot...
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Roasting Chicken and Fish Together in an Oven
The gemara says that one should not eat fish that was roasted together with meat because of the...
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For How Long Should Hagala be Done?
The poskim do not give an exact amount of time for hagala; it seems to be a matter...
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What to Do When Tevillat Keilim Is Not Feasible
The Torah speaks in the same context about the often overlapping laws of hechsher keilim of used utensils...
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Buying Food without a Hechsher for a Friend
In order to properly answer this question, we need more information about both your friend and the food....
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An Oven Used for Chillul Shabbat
Food that is cooked on Shabbat is one of many examples of ma’aseh Shabbat (something produced as a...
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Futures Contracts of Pigs
In the course of discussing the prohibition of commerce in non-kosher food in Living the Halachic Process, vol....
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Discarding Separated Challa
In principle, the portion of dough designated as challa is supposed to be given to a kohen to...
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Does a Cutting Board Used for Onions Take on the Status of the Knife?
Had you cut most foods with a fleishig knife, they would not have become fleishig for up to...
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Using a Water Urn for Milchig and Fleishig
We can provide you with a source for what you heard, but we also must tell you that...
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Eating Chezkat Chalavi Foods after Meat
The Torah forbids eating milk and meat together only when they are cooked together. Chazal forbid eating them...
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Pareve Food Cooked in a Meat Utensil
At this point, until you kasher it, your pan is fleishig. A fleishig utensil contains kosher meat taste,...
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Pareve Food in Meat Utensils and then Milk Utensils
Questions of nat bar nat (twice-removed taste, i.e., taste that goes from food into a pot and then...
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Tasting Unsupervised Wine
We must deal with a few issues. Some of the main kashrut concerns regarding agricultural produce pertain mainly...
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Providing Non-Kosher Food for Non-Jewish Workers
The gemara derives from a pasuk that one may sell non-kosher species that come into his possession, but...
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Working in a Non-Kosher Establishment
The question is general, and the answer follows suit. For the purpose of this halachic investigation, we are...
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Timtum HaLev
We will divide our view and analysis of the sources regarding this excellent question into three parts: 1)...
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Tevillat Keilim Before Giving a Present
On a certain level, the goal of tevillat keilim is to purify utensils that we obtain from a...
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Products Containing Minute Quantities of Non-Kosher Food
There are different views about the efficacy of alternative medicine in general. Given that extreme opinions are rarely...
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