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Does dividing bulk Kosher items make them no longer Kosher?
When you open the sealed bulk carton, they can no longer know that it has been certified. It is the same reason that an airline kosher meal must be served to the passenger still sealed. Once it has ...
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Does dividing bulk Kosher items make them no longer Kosher?
While I can't comment specifically on the issues involved with powdered milk and splitting them into single servings I can make a few suggestions:
Look into kosher single serving packets ( I don't ...
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Is it kosher to put butter in your lentils?
Those ingredients are totally kosher. People cook dairy with vegetables all the time.
Check out this menu from a vegetarian Indian restaurant in Cincinnati, certified kosher by the rabbis there. ...
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Why do Ashkenazim eat Milchigs (dairy) on Shavuos?
See Sefer יומא דעצרתא which gives 32 reasons why we eat dairy on Shavuos in the section ייני אם חלבי. Among them are:
(reason 18) we try to minimize our Simcha since David Hamelech died then.
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Why is the wait between meat and milk not halachically calculated?
Interestingly the Pitchei Tshuva on SA YD 89:1, in the context of eating meat after milk, brings an opinion from Beer Heitev shel Maharit that these could be shaot zemaniot. He quickly writes the Pri ...
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What is the extent of the prohibition for Jews to cook meat and milk together?
All dairy products are forbidden with meat products. The law is that three aspects are forbidden.
Meat and milk products (including butter and cheese) may not be cooked together
Meat and milk ...
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Are separate glasses required for milk and meat?
By way of background, one first needs to understand there is a difference of opinion between Ashkenazim and Sefaradim regarding the absorption and kashering of glass utensils.
Some poskim believe ...
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May one eat cheese that is wormy?
The Taz 89:4 explains hard cheese as both 6 months old or one that is wormy(Taz notes to be machmir for this case) ,and then would require 6 hours of waiting to eat meat.
The reason why the worms in ...
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Who holds that Cholov Yisroel is not a chumra?
I feel the need to post this because of the widespread misconception on this topic, as evidenced by Daniel's comments above, and the number of agreements to them.
It is a major Machlokes Haposkim as ...
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Does dividing bulk Kosher items make them no longer Kosher?
The answers already given here discuss the loss of the certifying seal, but miss an important part of the general difficulty around the handling of Kosher food -- Kosher food handled with non-Kosher ...
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Passover baking with milk instead of water
A recent Posek, Rav Eliezer Melamed, notes here that kneading with milk would indeed have the status of "Mei Peiros", and would not create Chametz. His source is the Gemara in Pesachim ...
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What is the Galitzianer minhag in regards to waiting between meat and milk?
I am of Galitzian roots and we wait 6 hours. Ashkenazic Jews in general didn't used to wait six hours, based on the Rama it was accepted to wait 6 hours. Ashreinu!
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Do those who keep Cholov Yisroel eat products marked "K-DE"?
The Rama writes (in Yoreh Deah 115:1):
חָלָב שֶׁל עוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים אוֹסְרִים כֵּלִים שֶׁנִּתְבַּשְּׁלוּ בָּהֶם כִּשְׁאָר אִסּוּר, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵינוֹ רַק סָפֵק שֶׁמָּא עֵרֵב בָּהּ דָּבָר טָמֵא.
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Were the Israelites' pots really ben yoman when they received the Torah?
In the Torah portion Beshalach (Shemos 16,8) it says that the Jews were to receive meat at night:
וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה בְּתֵת יְהוָה לָכֶם בָּעֶרֶב בָּשָׂר לֶאֱכֹל וְלֶחֶם בַּבֹּקֶר לִשְׂבֹּעַ - And ...
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looking for a cholov yisrael product
I checked with a manager of a large grocery store in Lakewood and in Brooklyn. Unfortunately none of the Cholov Yisroel companies currently produce such a product. Thus it is not available.
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If one ate milchig bread, how long is one milchig
Shulchan Aruch YD 89:3 writes:
If one ate a tavshil of dairy one can eat meat afterwards as long as one washes out one's mouth.
Some people are machmir and have the custom to wait half an hour before ...
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Beracha achrona on yogurt?
A psak on din.org says that if yogurt is shaken up and drunk, it's treated like a drink, and if it's eaten, it's treated like food. They based it off of the Shulchan Aruch Harav (Seder Birchas ...
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Why doesn't the OU put DE on food packages anymore?
Was out shopping today and found OU-DE products in the store. Per the OU website they do have a DE designation that they currently use.
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Pizza at Seudas Shabbos
See http://halachafortodaycom.blogspot.com/2013/02/archives-hilchos-seudas-melave-malka.html?m=1 about melava malka:
"If one does not enjoy, or is not interested in eating a fleishig meal, many ...
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What is the extent of the prohibition for Jews to cook meat and milk together?
I don't know if it's allowed on this site but I think the OP needs an answer from an outsider.
If this is inappropriate here, please feel free to delete it.
If any of it is factually incorrect, ...
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Why is milk blue?
I'm not sure what you mean by variations, but the Ramma in Yoreh Deah 89:4 does mention the minhag to have two separate knives, one for dairy and one for meat, and to make a mark on the dairy knife. ...
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Why is milk blue?
Although like other users have suggested this Minhag is not officially established, that is the case early on with most Minhagim. I think most can confirm that when these are separated by colored ...
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Does anyone know where to find cholov yisrael condensed milk?
condensed milk cholov yisroel
similar link
It seems it is called Baker's Choice (brand) and it is made under New Square Kosher certification (dairy - cholov Yisroel).
In the first link you can ...
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Kosher Pet Food
See Pischei Tshuvah D"H Tamei in Yoreh Deah 87:3 where he deals with the mechanics of your question. Additionally, D Wolf already touched upon the issue a bit.
This is what the Pischei Tshuvah ...
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Milk & Meat Tradition
You asked:
At what point in Jewish history did waiting 6 hours between milk and meat become the uniform approach in most communities (or in some places 1 hour or 3 hours)?
According to this article ...
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Where is there a rabbinic recipe for milk and honey?
The Midrash (Shir HaShirim Rabbah, 4:11:2) actually makes the exact opposite inference from this passuk, prompting it to interpret it allegorically:
דְּבַשׁ וְחָלָב תַּחַת לְשׁוֹנֵךְ, רַבִּי ...
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What is the Galitzianer minhag in regards to waiting between meat and milk?
Six hours. That's the default, what you'd see in "Poland", which included Galicia back then.
Three hours is German and British; one is Dutch; Sephardic practices vary widely.
(I also happen to know ...
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Is K-כשר kosher?
In response to my query to Costco they sent me the following information. K-כשר is Rabbi Aryeh Spero. He runs Quality Kosher Supervision and is located in Canton, OH. The milk comes from Superior ...
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Koshering the celim that milchig bread was baked in
Dairy bread is not uniformly forbidden, there are two exceptions (from OU here)
Dairy bread that has a unique shape is permissible because the shape will serve as a reminder that the bread is not ...
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Why does rennet need to come from a kosher animal?
שולחן ערוך יורה דעה · פז · יא
אם העמיד גבינה בעור קיבת כשרה יש בה טעם בשר אסורה ואם לאו מותרת אבל
המעמיד בעור קיבת נבילה וטריפה ובהמה טמאה אוסר בכל שהוא:
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Cheese made with kosher ...
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