Can I Toivel a dish that I buy as a gift for someone?

 

The Halacha is that a dish has to be toiveled by the owner or when it’s being given as a gift, the recipient.

If that is not possible, either because they are not going to do it themselves or because they will not be able to do it themselves before Yom tov, you may tovel it on their behalf.

The procedure is as follows:

The giver first makes a kinyan (halachic transfer of ownership) by handing the gift to another person who acts as a shaliach (representative) of the recipient and lifts it up on their behalf. Once the kinyan has taken place, it is as if the gift belongs to the recipient, and the giver may toivel it on their behalf.

 

See here:

Halacha2go.com #834: Status of a Pre-Toiveled Gift

 

 

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