Can I eat in a home where the water used for cooking is not filtered? Answer: According to most Poskim, tap water in NYC must be filtered due…
Can I eat in a home where the water used for cooking is not filtered? Answer: According to most Poskim, tap water in NYC must be filtered due…
One should not buy any fish from a non-Kosher store if the skin has been removed and you cannot identify if it has scales (and is actually a kosher…
Question: My cleaning help saw a bottle of non-Mevushal wine on my dining room table, but she did not touch it. Can it be used for Kiddush? Can it…
There are several reasons for leniency with regard to canned vegetables, sardines, salmon or tuna: Firstly, many vegetables are edible raw, where the Issur of Bishul Akum doesn't apply.…
There is no issue of Bishul (or Pas) Akum applicable here because the oats are not fit for a kings table. They also need more cooking to make them edible…
Later in the day cookies were put in, after the oven was previously heated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, for about 5 minutes. Are the cookies allowed to be served in…
The oven needs to be Kashered if you want it to be Pareve, (even if none of the Milchig cookies spilled or splattered). To Kasher the oven in this instance…
There is no problem with a non-Jew making quick oats, since it is not עולה על שולחן מלכים. See here regarding kashrus concerns: https://asktherav.com/article-212-issues-with-non-jewish-cleaning-help/ #1233
Please see here: https://asktherav.com/2311-can-bread-that-requires-reheating-be-considered-pas-yisroel/ #1184
Fresh apricots do not require a Hechsher unless they are from Eretz Yisroel. Even dried apricots, if produced out of Eretz Yisroel (usually they are made in Turkey), do…
Continued: I'm in a lot of pain and have been for a number of months in my back, foot, leg and hip, the pain is totally getting in the…
If the blender was clean when you ground the seeds, you may use them for chicken. If you washed the blender with soap in between its last usage, you…
Your Milchig spoon as well as your Fleishig cutlery is all fine. The sponge is fine too. Sources: רמ״א יו״ד צה, ג: וְאִם נִמְצָא קְעָרָה חוֹלֶבֶת בֵּין כְּלֵי בָּשָׂר,…
Question: I put a hot metal bowl on a clean table covered by the plastic table cover in a country house rented from a non-Jew. Afterwards I also put…
We are careful not to eat fish together with milk due to a possible danger involved. It is proper to also refrain from eating fish with hard cheese, at…
If there is any grease of the Fleishigs remaining on the walls of the oven, one may not eat the cookies with milk. Even if the oven was completely…
Q. Must I wash bottles or dishes of breast milk with its own sponge? A. Mother's milk is considered Pareve. However, we give it the status of Milchig because…
שאלה בבשר בחלב במתקן מים
שאלה: מדובר במתקן לחימום מים, שיש מסגרת של מתכת מסביב כמו כיסוי (צירפתי תמונות למטה), והמכסה למעלה אינו נוגע במתקן עצמו. המקום היחיד שיש נגיעה בין המתקן לכיסוי זה…
The strainer will not become fleishig or milchig in either case. Sources: 1) The taste of the meat (or dairy) absorbed in the pot after 24 hours is טעם…
These pellets usually contain milk sugar (not cholov yisroel) and sometimes alcohol from wine, in amounts that are not bottul. Arnica pellets with a hechsher (pareve) are widely available.
There is a difference between consuming a medicine where one does not benefit from the taste and where one does benefit from the taste (like a a flavored syrup medicine).…
