Questions tagged [yayin-nesech]
Yayin-Nesech is wine that has been touched by a non-Jew, rendering it non-Kosher, unless it was cooked beforehand or is in a sealed container.
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May a Jew drink a fruit drink that has less than 1/60 of grape juice?
There are a number of manufactured fruit drinks that have trace amounts of grape juice that are less than 1/60 of the volume of ingredients. (A way to tell is when the product label states the ...
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Refrigerator door and Yayin Nesech
If an open bottle of wine is on the shelf in the door of a refrigerator, and a non-Jew opens the door of the refrigerator, thereby moving the wine, does the wine become yayin nesech?
Let's assume ...
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Are fermented grapes (not wine) subject to yayin nesech?
A friend of mine asked me a question over Shabbos, and I didn't have an easy answer for him.
Let's say that someone had some old grapes that fermented by themselves, so that they're now a kind of ...
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Containers and wine
Is there any outer container (a frame or box, perhaps) into which an open bottle of non-mevushal wine can be placed that will shield the bottle in such a way that, if a non-Jew (or heretic) casually ...
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How could the brothers drink with Yosef?
Towards the end of parshas Miketz (Bereishit 43:34), it mentions that the brothers drank with Yosef. Considering that as far as the brothers knew, they were surrounded by idol-worshipers, were they ...
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Why can't we drink wine that was made by a non Jew but by machine
Why can't we drink wine that was made by a non-Jew but was made from beginning to end by machine? Needless to say that according to the Gemara that it is only yayin nesech if the non Jew makes an ...
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Can a convert drink wine he previously touched?
If a non-Jew touches uncooked wine it is considered yayin nesech. If that same non-Jew then converts and states categorically that he did not offer the wine as an idolatrous libation when he was a non-...
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Does a Jewish idolater's pouring of non-mevushal wine make that wine forbidden to himself?
We see from this answer that wine poured by a Jew who rejects Judaism is yayin nesech. Would that cause the wine to be forbidden even to himself, or is it only forbidden to others? Would he be ...
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Would a gentile child that sees/touches wine make it into Yayin Nesech?
Would a gentile child - under the age of 13 (male)/12 (female) - that sees/touches wine make it into Yayin Nesech? Or can only an adult make it into Yayin Nesech?
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Can a Minor Convert Effect Yayin Nesach?
Per the answer to Are children adopted by Jews Jewish? a child that is adopted by Jewish parents when they reach adulthood (13/12) are given the choice of remaining Jewish.
If I know of a child that ...
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Wine made/handled by non-religious Jews
Assume for the purposes of the question that all circumstances are the same as if the wine had been made/handled by non-Jews. I don't want answers regarding whether it is Mevushal or whether Mevushal ...
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