Does a Britta water filtering pitcher need toiveling?
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1Why would you think they need to be toiveled?Aren't they made of plastic?– samCommented Dec 26, 2017 at 17:51
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Welcome to MiYodeya Devorah, Please consider registering your account, to enable more site features, including voting. Hope to see you around!– mblochCommented Dec 26, 2017 at 17:52
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@sam Might be a shailo whether you have to toivel the actual filter, no?– SAHCommented Dec 26, 2017 at 18:17
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1@sam there are some opinions that require plastic being toiveled.– mrollCommented Dec 26, 2017 at 19:06
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1This strikes me as a practical question that should be addressed to a rabbi. Unless it's reworded to be either 1) some uniqueness of brita pitchers and the discussion regarding that or 2) the discussion regarding wether plastic needs tevillah or something else.– mrollCommented Dec 26, 2017 at 19:10
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Wikipedia explains how the Britta pitchers are made:
BRITA products include water jugs, kettles and tap attachments, all of which use silver-impregnated activated carbon and ion-exchange resin disposable filters as their primary filtering mechanism. The activated carbon used in BRITA filters is produced from coconut shells. The company manufactures its pitchers from styrene methyl methacrylate copolymer.
Coconut shells would not require tevilla.
As for the pitcher itself which is, essentially, plastic, Kof-K says:
The consensus of the majority of the poskim is that utensils made from plastic do not require a tevilah prior to use. An example of this is Tupperware utensils. There are some poskim who say that fortunate is the one who is careful to tovel plastic. The same holds true for utensils made from rubber.
Refer to the footnotes in each article for additional info and details.
