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Is there a problem with eating Gummy Bears and Meat together?
Here is an answer from The Star-K.
Similarly fish gelatin in order to be considered kosher must be produced from kosher species of fish. The use of fish gelatin with meat foods poses an interesting ...
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Is AquAdvantage salmon kosher?
Kosher speciation
Generally speaking, we have a rule that "kol hayotzei min hatahor tahor, vichol hayotzei min hatamei tamei" ("that which comes from a kosher species is kosher, and that which comes ...
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Could Yonah's "whale" have been a whale?
The only Rishon I saw who identifies the Dag Gadol in his commentary is [R Eliezer of Beaugency to Yonah 2:1][1], and he identifies it as a "בַלְיינְא וכיוצא בו", which is a baleine (etc.) in French (...
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Is AquAdvantage salmon kosher?
I'd asked Rabbi Hershel Welcher of Queens a similar question, about goats that were given a bit of spider genes so they would produce gossamer in their milk. He felt the concept of "zeh v'zeh gorem, ...
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Is there a concept of "bitul beshishim" with regards to fish?
As always, the answer is: "it's a machlokes!"
Open up a Shulchan Aruch to Yoreh Deah 116:2, where it says not to mix meat and fish.
The Taz's opinion is that because meat-and-fish is a health ...
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Why do fish die?
I couldn't find any commentators on the Midrash addressing this issue. So, instead, I will offer a deflection of the assumptions as my answer.
I will argue: Fish, along with plants and bugs, were ...
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Is AquAdvantage salmon kosher?
The Chasam Sofer (Toras Moshe parshas Shemini) writes that the meaning of the Medrash (cited by many Rishonim) that the pig is called a חזיר because עתיד הקב"ה להחזירה לישראל - Hashem is going to "...
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Why are shellfish not kosher?
Shellfish do not have fins and scales. As the pasuk Shmini 11:9 says
Among all [creatures] that are in the water, you may eat these: Any
[of the creatures] in the water that has fins and scales, ...
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Is swordfish Kosher?
I am no Gadol HaDor nor a Posake by any means, however, I have caught Swordfish in the past and can tell you that the deck of the boat has been covered with tiny scales after boating the Swordfish. I ...
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are you allowed to feed fish on shabbos?
Yalkut Yosef 1:373:15 says that one may feed fish in his fishtank on Shabbos.
מותר ליתן אוכל לדגים שבאקווריום בשבת
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky also says it is permitted.
This is only permitted for pet ...
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Why is herring used for tikun?
This is not a definite reason, but it may be in memory of the teaching of Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav found in Bava Bathra 74b which talks about the Leviathan that was salted and stored away by ...
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Worcestershire sauce: OU Fish? Can it be used on steak/fleish?
The OU site has an article on this. The explain:
Therefore, products that contain amounts of fish that are not batel b’shishim must be labeled OU Fish, so that consumers will not unwittingly eat ...
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What is a kilbis fish?
Jastrow suggests that the kilbith fish may be a stickleback.
כִּלְ' , (כִּילְבִּית) כִּילְכִּית f. (=כילכלית, v. כלכל; or denom. of כלב, emp. כּוּלָב) name of a small fish, supposed to be a ...
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Certified vs. Uncertified Costco Salmon
R Sholem Fishbane, the Executive Director of the Associated Kashrus Organizations (AKO), an umbrella group of major kosher-certifying agencies and the and the Kashruth Administrator of the CRC kosher ...
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Kaparos with fish
An Alsatian associate told me that the custom of Alsatian Jews is to perform kapparot with a fish.
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Why is fish and milk permitted but not poultry and milk?
About quails they eat in the desert what says the verse? Bamidbar (11, 33).
הַבָּשָׂר עוֹדֶנּוּ בֵּין שִׁנֵּיהֶם טֶרֶם יִכָּרֵת וְאַף יְהֹוָה חָרָה בָעָם וַיַּךְ יְהֹוָה בָּעָם מַכָּה רַבָּה מְאֹד:
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How many species of fish don't have simonim when caught?
The Snoek fish loses its scales when you take it out of the water.
Many kosher consumers in South Africa eat Snoek.
Discussion of South African fishermen regarding Snoek: http://www.sealine.co.za/...
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Eating fish on Yom Tov?
See Aruch Hashulchan 529:4 that one should have fish and meat on Yom Tov:
ולקבוע כל סעודה על דגים ובשר,
Mateh Ephraim 625:65/67 says similarly that one should have fish, meat, and wine:
עתה נחזור ...
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Fish and Meat only an issue until year 5000?
I found it quoted in Shemiras Haguf V’HanefeshThe Mahashdam Chelek Daled Siman 124 in the name Sefer Hakana after the Year 5000
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Ancient Jews eating only fish with fins and scales?
How can these findings be reconciled with the Torah's prohibitions to consume finless and scaleless fish?
To give a few possible answers.
The research was biased and faulty
Finless and scaleless ...
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Fresh fish need hechsher
IIRC, I heard from R. Nota Greenblatt, that if one can successfully identify the fish as a kosher species, it is permitted.
If it has been cut with a knife that be non-kosher, then the area of the ...
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Is the Leviatan real?
In general, rabbinic commentators (e.g. Maimonides, Maharal, Ramchal, Vilna Gaon) have been strongly opposed to the literal interpretation of medrash, and these midrashim are no exception.*
To quote ...
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Fishes in the Ark?
Fish were not harmed:
the Gemara notes that marine life was not harmed by the Mabul.
(Sanhedrin 108a, quoted by Rashi on Bereshis 7:22)
that were on the dry land: But not the fish, which were in the ...
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Can one cook meat and fish dishes at the same time in the same oven?
Many halachic decisors permit cooking meat and fish dishes simultaneously provided at least one of them is covered (SA YD 108:1). After the fact, it is permitted to eat the food even if not covered (...
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May one marinate fish on Shabbat?
The Mishna Berura in 321:5 (21) states that one may not salt raw fish or meat; whether to eat it on that Shabbat or to prevent it from spoiling.
He says that it's a Rabbinic decree as it looks like ...
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Removing dead fish from fish tank on shabbas
According to Rav Yehoshua Y. Neuwirth z"l, in his work Shemirath Shabbath [Ke'hilchata] (27:29):
a. A fish which has died may be removed from an aquarium, so that the
other fish should not die, ...
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Why aren't kosher marshmallows labelled OU Fish?
This article from Star K says in part:
Similarly, fish gelatin must be produced from a kosher species of fish
if it is to be considered kosher. The use of fish gelatin with meat
foods poses an ...
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Why does Judaism believe in דולפנין Mermaids?
Contrary to popular belief, mermaids do not exist. The Gemara describes dolphins, which Rashi mistook as mermaids or read it that way in Worms. Similarly, what Christopher Columbus and the Spanish ...
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Meaning of this midrash
Artscroll brings in an explanation from Olelos Efrayim (§547)
The "ship" is the person in his passage through this world (as above,
73a note 21 (Ch. 51). Rabbah states that during his ...
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