Kosher

“ It cannot be based on one’s ability to prohibit an item to himself (Heb. ‘shavyeh anafsheh chaticha d'issura’) , for that is only for an item that he believes to be actually prohibited, as one who would say a piece of meat contains Biblically forbidden fat or is otherwise actually non kosher, as it would be possible for that to be the case. ”

“ Rabbeinu z"l said, by the world (people say) that a kosher person cannot commit a transgression, and if he commits a transgression he is not a kosher person. But by me (I say) the even a kosher person can also also fall into transgression, and when he stumbles he is still a kosher person. ”

“ It is not appropriate to say [that the onions and vegetables] are inherently, entirely not kosher; they are still entirely kosher, and similarly one only needs to [have 60 times] against that which was absorbed [by the onions and the vegetables] . ”

“ But if there's a Sedek (crack, cleft, fissure) appearing to separate them, the size of a myrtle leaf, whether at their root, the middle, or end it's kosher.
Rema: And some declare it kosher by recognition or any hole even though it's less than a myrtle leaf (Rashi, Ittur, Tos., Samag, Rosh, Tur, R' Yerucham, Tashbatz, and Mordekhai כשם ה"ג ור"ח וש"ד וראבי"ה) , and we should rely on them in case of great loss and declare kosher. The lower lobe on the right, it's usually thicker and longer than the middle one, and also taller than that of the left. ”

“ According to the ר׳י, even if the entire branch was severed but there remains enough thread in the tassel to make a loop, it is Kosher. The world custom is according to Rashi. In a difficult situation, one can rely on the ר׳י. ”

“ You just hold yourselves together; then you will be kosher people, and not just kosher but even tzaddikim and good [Jews] you will be. For Hashem Yitbarakh will definitely help me that it will be as I wish, as I have long desired, for by Hashem's help I definitely have finished and will finish according to my desire. And he said that whoever makes contact with and connects with one of his followers will definitely be a kosher man in truth, and not just a kosher man but even a total tzaddik, as I would want. ”

“ This is the view of the Ran, that when touching, the salt of the kosher piece heats up the non-kosher piece, causing it to release juice that gets absorbed in the kosher piece. However, when they are apart, it is permitted. ”

“ If it is an emergency situation where there is no other shofar available, it is kosher when patched with native material and the majority is intact, even if the voice does not return to its original sound. ”

“ Paragraph 11 — If one formed cheese via the lining of the stomach of a kosher animal, [if] there is in it the taste of meat, [then] it is forbidden, And if not, it is permitted. However, [cheese] that took its form via the lining of the stomach of an animal that could be kosher but was not properly slaughtered, or via a “torn” animal [i.e. one that had some sort of injury rendering it non-kosher] , or via an impure animal, it forbids in any amount. {Rema: Because something that is forbidden in itself, and it gives form, even by 1000x [the amount] it cannot be nullified. ”

“ The Magyar officials taunted the Jewish youths, made the gypsies play anti-Semitic songs and finally remained victors in the field, consuming the fat kosher geese, the no less kosher wine, and did not scruple to kiss the kosher maidens who were still half children and delighted in the attention they received. ”

“ One whom is forced to convert that remains in our lands, if he keeps kosher, whether with them or on his own, and is not able to flee so that he should be able to serve G-d, we can rely on his ritual slaughter and he does not forbid wine with his touch. ”

“ Appellees are Crown Kosher Super Market, a corporation whose four stockholders, officers and directors are members of the Orthodox Jewish faith, which operates in Springfield, Massachusetts, and sells kosher meat and other food products that are almost exclusively kosher and which has many orthodox Jewish customers; three of Crown's customers of the Orthodox Jewish faith, whose religion forbids them to shop on the Sabbath and requires them to eat kosher food, as representatives of that class of patrons ”

“ The reason is because kosher meat that was salted with non-kosher meat will easily absorb tzir even thought it won’t absorb blood since it is in the process of expelling its own blood. While meat is being salted to remove its blood, it can not absorb any other blood but it can absorb other liquids. Non-kosher tzir is biblically forbidden, but tzir from non-kosher fish, or tzir of meat that is forbidden because of blood is of rabbinical origin. ”

“ However, when it comes to selling meat that he did not slaughter himself – we would have to assume that he would not transgress a Biblical prohibition to feed other Jews non-kosher meat, and we do not suspect any Jewish person to behave thusly, whether he be a trusted expert or not, unless he has attained the legal status of one suspected to transgress Biblical prohibitions. Moreover, he certainly should not be suspected if he has used the services of a shochet, as the legal presumption is that most people found working as shochtim are experts in their field. ”

“ And even when kosher people rally a little and break their craivings, and elevate from hachtim to chotam diqdushah, whence the holy oil is generated, the aspect of the holy knowledge, to shine in the world, nevertheless they still attack and tease the rest of the people, and bring them to blemish the Covenant, which is blemish of the mind. ”

“ Paragraph 70 — A pipe that trickles into a mikvah and there is a cavity by its side, if it is doubtful [if the water] is coming from the pipe or the cavity, it is invalid because the invalidity proves it; and if the mikvah has a majority kosher water, it is kosher because it is a doubt of drawn water, because there is there an established kosher mikvah.
סעיף ע — צנור שמקלח למקוה והמכתשת נתונה בצדו, ספק מהצנור למקוה ספק מהמכתשת למקוה, הרי זה פסול מפני שהפסול מוכיח; ואם יש במקוה רובו מים כשרים, הרי זה כשר שזה ספק מים שאובים, שהרי יש שם מקוה כשר קבוע. ”

“ Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Government policy and practice contributed to the generally free practice of religion.
A law is in place requiring animal slaughter to be preceded by the administration of anesthetics to minimize undue suffering of the animal. The Jewish community has protested that this prevents the practice of kosher slaughter, requiring kosher meat to be imported. The Muslim community appears to be split between those who feel certain anesthetic methods do not conflict with halal requirements, and those who feel that it does. ”

“ Paragraph 6 - If one kneaded [the flour] with carraway, sesame, or spices, it is kosher, because it has the taste of matzo. In any event, one should not use spices, because they are sharp and heat the dough. Rem"a: Regarding peppers, [dough] is even forbidden after the fact. The same is true if plaster fell in (Mahar"i Bruna) .
סעיף ו - לש המצה בקצח ושמשמין ובמיני תבלין, כשרה, כיון שיש בה טעם מצה. ומכל מקום אין לתן בה תבלין, לפי שהוא חד ומחמם העסה. הגה: ופלפלין, אפלו בדיעבד אסור, וכן אם נפל בה סיד (מהר"י ברונא) . ”

“ If there is no kosher food nearby, we feed him forbidden food. If there are two types of forbidden food, one more forbidden than the other, we feed him the less forbidden one first. Rem"a: Regarding when they need meat and there is an animal that needs to be slaughtered or a carcass that died naturally that is ready, see 328:14. ”

“ And if a Sirkha goes out from the lower parts of the lobe and spreads on the back of the Ona and is Nirsakh to the wall, if the majority of the Sirkha is on the back of the Ona it's kosher and if not it's treif. ”

“ In the name of Rabbi Yishmael, said one student before Rabbi Akiva: Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel did not argue on a mavoy that is lower than 4 amot, for it is kosher with a lehi or a korah. About what do they disagree? ”

“ Nevertheless, one cannot be lenient on a matter that most of the Jewish people are stringent about unless he has a tradition from his teachers not to practice this stringency. If it is impossible to retract, such as where the party that took the money inappropriately is now overseas, the party was strong, the judge made something that was pure, impure or he ruled that something kosher was not kosher and it was fed to the dogs or anything similar, the judge is not obligated to pay. ”

“ The great Reform split did not occur till well on towards the middle of the century, and the Jews of those days were unable to conceive that a man could be a Jew without eating kosher meat, and they would have looked upon the modern distinctions between racial and religious Jews as the sophistries of the convert or the missionary. ”

“ Therefore, if a house was breached in the middle, schach was placed at the breach, and the ceiling remaining surrounding the valid schach was less than four amot, it is kosher. However, we do not sleep underneath when it is more than four tefachim [wide] . ”

“ It is forbidden to buy asafoetida from non-Jews if it is cut with their knives which have come into contact with non-kosher food, and so too with mixtures of fish, because small unkosher fish gets into the mixers and it is impossible to separate them, and they sometimes place wine to soak in the mixture. ”

“ Some are stringent to give him a kabbalah if he's under 18 (Mordekhai in the name of Hilkhot Eretz Yisrael, and Hagahot Alfasi haChadashim) , as then he becomes a gavra bar da`at/man in his right mind and knows to be careful.
Seif 6 A Cheresh/mute person who can speak but not hear: He may not shecht, since he cannot hear the Berakhah. But if he shechted solo for himself — his shechita is kosher.
Seif 7 Someone who can hear but not speak: If he's expert, he can shecht even in the first instance if someone else says the berakhah. ”

“ If the crack traverses the whole shofar, even on one side, it is not kosher, even if they heat it in the fire and attach the sides of the crack.
סעיף ח
נסדק לאורכו פסול י"א אפי' בכל שהוא פסול אלא אם כן הדקו הרבה בחוט או במשיחה ונשתייר שיעור התקיעה ממקום הקשירה ולמעלה לצד הפה (כל בו) וי"א דוקא ברובו ואם דבקו כשר אפילו אם דבקו בדבק ויש מי שאומר שאינו כשר אלא כשדבקו בעצמו שחיממו באור עד שנפשר וחבר קצותו זה עם זה ואם נסדק כולו אפי' מצד אחד פסול אפילו חממו באור וחבר סדקיו זה עם זה:
586:9 If it cracks widthwise, if the crack traverses the minority of the shofar, it is kosher. ”

“ A place in which no Jewish baker is found, and there are those that permit commercial bread, if a Jewish baker should arrive there, then the bread of the non-Jewish bakers becomes forbidden until the Jewish baker has sold his bread, after which the bread of the non-Jews regains its kosher status.
סעיף ד – מקום שאין פלטר ישראל מצוי, לדעת המתירין יג ליקח פת מפלטר עובד כוכבים, אם הגיע שם פלטר ישראל הרי פת פלטר עובד כוכבים יד אסורה עד שימכור פלטר ישראל פתו, ולאחר שכלה פת ישראל חוזר פתו של עובד כוכבים להכשרו. ”

“ Certainly, the Rabbi of the town is believed in all matters, for once the community has appointed him to teach and rule should he state that a piece of meat is ‘treif’ how could they then eat from it? They themselves have accepted upon themselves to follow his rulings in all matters of law regarding what is permitted and what is prohibited. ”

“ Whoever shechted and a treifah once came out from under his hand, if that's not muchzak/ an established pattern then it's permitted to eat from his later shechitah. However, this is determined by the dayan/ judge's eyes' view of the man shechting. If he's already faulty and accustomed to do this we remove him. ”

“ Otherwise, it is not kosher.
סעיף כ
נתן שופר לתוך שופר אם הפנימית עודף על החיצון משני צדדין ונתן הפנימי בפיו ותקע בו כשר: הגה ולי נראה דאפי' אינו בולט בצד הרחב רק שוה לחיצון הואיל ובולט לצד הפה ותוקע בפנימי יצא כן נראה לי וכ"מ מלשון הרא"ש והוא שלא ישנה קולו במה שהוא נתון בתוך החיצון ואם לאו פסול:
586:21 We do not break the laws of Holidays for the Rosh Hashanah shofar, even something that is only rabbinically prohibited. How so? If there was a shofar at the top of a tree or across a river and there is no other shofar, one does not climb the tree or sail on the water. ”

“ Section 25 We find in our era that there is a practice in small cities to hire a Shochet who is also employed as cantor in the synagogue. This is proper, though it is important that this employment is conditioned on the clause that this man should not spend an inordinate amount of time studying liturgical melodies, for if he spends much of his time delving into this subject and practicing with a choir he will perforce not attend to his studies of ritual slaughter, or the maintenance of his knives, as much as he should. ”

“ Should not the meat be prohibited according to the rule that “meat that has become hidden from the eye is forbidden”, since he was not the one who lost it and he cannot claim to be able to recognize the meat as his? ”

“ If not for the words of the Rabbis it would appear to me that his intent is so: Even though by terumah and other commandments one should not perform the act if unable to pronounce the blessing, that is only because all Jews are able to separate terumah and it is not the work of an expert. On the other hand, slaughter is an area where most are not expert, and an average person is not able to slaughter, so allowance is made in the form of a leniency that one need not refrain because of the inability to say the blessing. ”

“ Furthermore, a person is even believed on his own property to declare it permissible, for the reason that he is able to rectify the prohibition ‘through his own hands’ (Rosh, fifth chapter of Gemara Gittin,Section 8) . This particular reason we have been discussing was originally propounded by the sages in regards to Tevel (produce from which the Kohen's tithe was not yet removed) , where a person is likewise believed to claim that he has separated the Kohen’s and Levi’s portions, since he has that ability. ”