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Is it Bishul Akum if a gentile boils non potable water?
In general there is no prohibition of bishul akum with water since its form and taste do not change through cooking. Star-K for instance writes
Foods whose form and taste do not change through ...
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Bishul Akum with Electricity
This exact view is cited here in his name. The reason given is that the action of "lighting" such an oven only sends a short pulse to activate the electric heat, but the electricity which ...
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Oleh Al Shulchan Melachim: Taking food from one country to another
The Ben Ish Chai Chukas 2:12 brings from R’ Chaim Vital and others that in this case it would be prohibited:
אפונים שקורין בערבי "חומץ" (חומוס) שקלו אותם הגויים כתב רבנו הרב חיים ויטל ז&...
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Why should a kashrus certification agency change their standards?
Without knowing any context or the underlying reasoning behind the policy change, it's difficult to know why the standard was changed. Certainly it is possible that politics and/or customer ...
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Why should a kashrus certification agency change their standards?
Kashrus is a business where the certifier has to balance between the companies and consumers. The certifier determines whether consumers are looking for a higher or lower standard relative to the ...
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Donald Trump's Hamburger
As you pointed out from Rabbi Heinemann, it would only apply if this was served at a state dinner, which this was certainly not. According to other Poskim, who take "Oleh al Shulchan Melachim" ...
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Is there any qualification required to obviate bishul akum?
Without intent:
As you pointed out in the question, the Shach (10) and Taz (8) both argue with the רמ"א, which is what we would follow. This is true the other way as well, if a non-Jew turned on the ...
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What are the kashrut issues with kosher food at a non-kosher restaurant?
I think you're missing the most important issue:
The pots been used to cook the food may have recently been used to cook unkosher food - and thus render the food unkosher.
While we normally assume ...
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What are the kashrut issues with kosher food at a non-kosher restaurant?
According to Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi, there is no issue with Maarith Ayin. Here are some quoted examples and responsa. Some of these responsa are from his son A Abadi.
Example 1:
Questioner: How can you ...
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Reheating bishul Akum
The late Rabbi Salzer of the Adath Jeshurun community in Johannesburg (paying attention Danny Schoeman?) gave a strange ruling. He paskened that potato chips were bishul akum and he advised members ...
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Does Bishul Akum Apply To Half-Siblings
First of all Bishul Akum Food cooked by a gentile applies even if there is no worry of intermarriage Rema Yore Dea 112,1:
אסרו חכמים לאכול פת של עובדי כוכבים, משום חתנות. (ואפילו במקום דליכא משום ...
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Can I order hard-boiled eggs baked in a oven used only for eggs. How about in a non-kosher kitchen?
no, because there would be no way to verify such a claim in a non kosher kitchen. We don't rely on the word of non-Jews for koshrus.
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Does any Sefer / posek state clearly that the cooking of a Mechalel Shabbos is not considered bishul akum even lechatchila?
I just emailed this question to a friend of mine and I received the following response:
בפתחי תשובה (יו״ד רסי׳ קיב וסקי״ג) בשם התפלה למשה, ובפרי מגדים (שם סקי״ב בשפ״ד סק״ב) – פסקו לאיסור. וכן בקצור ...
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Does Bishul Yisra'el have to be a "direct" lighting?
The Ramah in Shulchan Arch Yoreh Deah 113/7 write that some say it makes it Bishul Yisroel.
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Cooking meat on Shabbat using Kinetic energy, or non-conventional ways
R Daniel Braude (Learn Shabbos, pp. 120ff) writes that it is only cooking if using a heat source and if it is the normal way of cooking. Since "meat slapping" doesn't have a heat source and ...
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Is non-Jewish cleaning help allowed to prepare her own food in a kosher microwave?
You are seemingly asking whether a non-Jew cooking in a microwave would make the utensils non-kosher. There are sources that show this is not the case
R Yitzchak Yaakov Fuchs (in Hakashrut, p. 590) ...
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Is non-Jewish cleaning help allowed to prepare her own food in a kosher microwave?
If the food she is cooking falls under the rules of Bishul Akum then
it could be a problem, since food that is Bishul Akum is assur to eat. It makes the keilim assur by being bolah issar food. In
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Can I order hard-boiled eggs baked in a oven used only for eggs. How about in a non-kosher kitchen?
If it is indeed only uses for eggs then there is no worry about it being not kosher in terms of ingredients. However it still falls under the category of bishul akum. So if you were to ask if it was ...
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Reheating bishul Akum
Considering that reheating is allowed on Shabbath (provided it is in a manner that doesn't run into Rabbinic restrictions like shehiyah or hachzara) because it is not considered cooking, it logically ...
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