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May one purchase crushed garlic?

Crushed garlic is to be purchased under a Mehadrin Hashgacha who verify that Kosher additives were added to the garlic to prevent the issue of it staying overnight.

Does the prohibition apply to egg powder and garlic/onion powder?

Some Poskim[1] rule that the above prohibition does not apply to powdered egg/garlic/onion.[2] Other Poskim[3], however, are stringent in this matter. Practically, the custom is to be lenient.

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[1] Degel Efraim 28; Chelkas Yaakov 1:111; Har Tzevi 74; Igros Moshe Y.D. 3:20; Shevet Halevi 6:111-5-7; Yabia Omer 2 Y.D. 7 based on Har Tzevi Y.D. 74; Imreiy Yaakov 10:32; See also Kaf Hachaim 116:93; Sefer Shemiras Haguf Vihanefesh [Lerner] 3:8

[2] The reason: As the food is no longer edible in its current state.

[3] Beis Shlomo 1:159; Minchas Pitim Y.D. 116; Darkei Teshuvah 116:74

This is not accurate. While it is true that a father can be punished for not educating his child, and that a child can be punished for the sins of his father, it is not accurate to say that also a father is punished for the sins of his child. In essence, a child is not obligated in mitzvah’s and hence he does not deserve punishment for transgression, and punishment can only be given to the father if he should’ve educated him otherwise, however not if the child chose to disobey and transgress.

See M”A 225:5; Levush 225; Shaareiy Efraim 4:26; Ketzos Hashulchan ibid footnote 13 in length; Nitei Gavriel 12:7

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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