Timeline for Gifting a kosher product one wouldn't eat or drink
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| Jul 5, 2019 at 4:51 | answer | added | יהושע ק | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 3:23 | history | edited | mbloch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2019 at 2:50 | comment | added | mbloch | @DanF I think you misunderstood my question - or more likely I didn't explain it properly. The person GIVING the gift wouldn't eat of it. The person RECEIVING the gift might eat it. Or his family might. Maybe one doesn't know. I agree that if one knows he wouldn't have a use for it then it is not a gift. As you understand this is a theoretical question - there is no specific situation I am asking about | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 1:13 | comment | added | DanF | I see just one main concern, here. It's the whole concept of giving a gift to someone. Something is a gift only when the one you give it to is pleased to get it. So, if you know in advance that the person isn't going to make any use of it, and, as I infer from your question, won't be pleased that you gave this to him, then why on earth are you bothering with this? Explain to me what aspect I'm missing, here. (Mind you, I know that there are plenty of "gracious liars" who smile when they receive the gift, pretend they will use it, and after you leave, go to the store to get cash for it.) | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 17:06 | comment | added | Gary | Sounds to me like you're going to have a lot of lenient friends if you buy good Scotch just to give it away... | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJudaism/status/1146795929271447552 | ||
| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | If Bal tashchit was relevant he could eat it himself. No one has ever used Bal tashchit as a reason to be lenient on a forbidden food law. That's just your morals talking, not halakha. Not consuming food for Halakhic reasons is by definition not wasting. | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:39 | comment | added | mbloch | Not sure it is so close - here you don't benefit from the other. The answers to the question you mention refer to benefiting from the other's possible melacha. Here there might be no benefit, might be to avoid bal tashchit. It is also possible kashrut is different because of timtum lev | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:23 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Basically just a variation on judaism.stackexchange.com/q/10240/759 | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 8:55 | history | asked | mbloch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |