This article is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy here or on amazon.com Must one remove stickers from the vessels? Introduction:[1] When immersing a vessel in a Mikveh one must remove all invalidating intervening items from the inside and outside of the vessel in order for the immersion to be […]
Chatzitzas on vessels during immersion
Chatzitzas on vessels:[1] When immersing a vessel in a Mikveh one must remove all invalidating intervals from the inside and outside of the vessel in order for the immersion to be valid. If there was an invalidating interval on the vessel at the time of immersion, the immersion is Rabbinically[2] […]
Food/bread cooked/baked by a non-religious Jew
May one eat the cooked/baked foods of a non-religious Jew Many of us encounter scenarios in which a non-observant Jew cooked foods for us in our homes and offers us to eat the food. This happens especially when not all family members are religious and hence whether or not […]
Involvement in the baking process
What involvement of a gentile in the baking determines the bread to be pas akum:[1] The Sages only forbade gentile baked bread in the event that the baking process was completely done by the gentile. If however a Jew was involved in some part of the baking process then the […]
Pas Paltar-Commercial gentile bread
Listen here to audio Pas Palter-Must commercially baked bread be Pas Yisrael:[1] When the Sages initially enacted the decree against eating the bread of a gentile, the decree applied towards all bread baked by a gentile, whether it is bread baked within the private home of a gentile, or bread […]
Mezonos products
Introduction: The Sages enacted two different forms of prohibitions against the foods of a gentile. One which relates to the bread of a gentile, and is called Pas Akum and the second which relates to the cooked foods of a gentile which is called Bishul Akum. The Halachic differences […]
The types of grains and dough
What types of bakery products are prohibited due to Pas Akum? The grain:[1] Only breads [or baked Mezonos products] that are made of the five grains [oat, spelt, wheat, barley, rye] are forbidden due to Pas Akum.[2] However, bread made of legumes or rice [or potatoes] is not included in […]
The prohibition
The Prohibition:[1] The Sages forbade eating bread [and other grain bakery products] of the gentile nations as a precaution against intermarriage.[2] [This prohibition is referred to as Pas Akum. The Sages did not completely prohibit the consumption of gentile bakery products and rather restricted its allowance, only permitting it with […]
Human blood-Kashrus status, law if fell in food, eating with bleeding gums
The laws of Kashrus relevant to Human blood & Unintentional consumption:[1] Human blood is not Biblically forbidden in consumption due to the blood prohibition.[2] Nevertheless, it is [Rabbinically] forbidden to drink visible human blood which has separated from a human body due to Maaras Ayin. Blood on food after biting:[3] […]
Is pasteurized wine considered Mevushal
Is pasteurized wine considered cooked?[1] In order for wine to become “protected” from becoming Yayin Nesech due to touch of a gentile, it must be Mevushal/cooked.[2] The definition of cooked is that the wine has been heated over a fire[3] to the point that it diminished its quantity [i.e. evaporated] […]
