Is it just me who sees the irony in this news title?
I guess the only thing funnier than bans, is when someone tries to reconcile the ban. Can you imagine someone now saying that Indian Hair sheitles are kosher? Would that allow for a class action lawsuit aginst those Rabbonim that allowed for the massive wig burnings that insued after the ban was issued.
Maybe they could make a Charedi Erin Bronkovich movie from the case.
I like how the Rabbis never actually admit they were wrong, its always some sort of epiphany they came to, like we found there to be no bugs, or we found that we couldn’t make any money on our bodek investment so we decided to make everyone’s lives a bit easier.
According to the article Rav Amar didn’t have an epiphany. He just said everyone else is wrong. Kind of brave actually.
I’m so glad you posted this one. Now I can eat strawberries without wondering if I’m going to burn for it.
Oddly enough, I am about to go to Costco to return 4 lb of strawberries that my very observant (in the classical sense) wife noticed are infested with tiny (max 1mm long) creepy-crawlies of some sort. You would never notice these things if they didn’t crawl around at a reasonable click.
I’m chewing on my strawberries and washing them down with a cup of unfiltered NYC water… Yum!
I love unfiltered NYC tap water, but make sure not to say a bracha because its treife
Ha ha ha, but the truth is that there are bugs (seen ’em, thanks), and it took a while to find a way to clean them that everybody could agree on.
When in doubt make smoothies, you won’t burn for those.
My Trader Joe’s dried berry medley which includes strawberries has an anonymous K. I don’t know what it’s called but it’s the same one that’s on their dairy spinikopita…and I was told it’s ok according to the DC rabbis.
wait the new york water is treif… im a little lost.. and now the strawberry whats next?
what’s wrong with Indian hair sheitels? What about Swedish hair sheitels?
You were told it’s ok to eat food with an invalid hecsher?
what’s wrong with an anonymous K? Is that just a K? I thought the KKK was the only K to worry about. 🙂
A “K” is not a copyrighted symbol, therefore any company could use it for any reason. Maybe they have hired an independent Rabbi to supervise their Kashrut. Maybe they hired a Reform Rabbi. Maybe they are not kosher at all, they just feel like trying to get the Kosher Market. With just a “K”, you don’t know. But if my Rabbi, who I trusted, knew and trusted the Mashgiach who was supervising that facility, and he told me that I could eat that product, that would be okay.
So what’s the final deal with brussel sprouts? Anyone know? Ok? Not ok?
If their are bugs in it, which sometimes there are, it is impossible to check for them (unless you want to check leaf by leaf, which besides being a pain would ruin the brussel sprouts). However, Rav Heineman of the Star-K says that if you get them frozen (with a hechsher), the freezing process would disintegrate any insects that might be there, and they would be permissible.
I’m so glad you posted this one. Now I can eat strawberries dipped in chocolate
It seems like the healthiest foods (broccoli, brussel sprouts, berries) are the ones that aren’t kosher.
wouldn’t cooking vegetables also “disintegrate” them, too, or are dead frozen bugs more kosher than cooked frozen bugs (steamed, sauteed, baked, etc.)? I would think that any bug not visible to the naked eye would (conceptually, not halachically) fall under the breast milk in the chulent rule, as long as you check for them before cooking, no?
They’re kosher, it’s just a bug problem. Get Rav Falk’s book on cleaning vegetables from infestation, he gives you ways to clean all of those vegetables.
What did our people do back in Europe before pesticides, bio engineering etc…? I am sure that the produce back then was much more infested than today, but I have never heard of bans etc…
Did someone say “breast milk”?
You never heard of them because there was no Vos Iz Neias back then.
Mashgiach, why would frozen brussel sprouts with a hechsher be better than frozen brussel sprouts without a hechsher? They obviously don’t check the frozen brussel sprouts, so what is the hechsher for? Wouldn’t any frozen brussel sprouts be okay then?
reb yudel, if there is a food item with little thingies on it for flavor or something on it isn’t one merely supposed to say the breacha for the main part of the food? lol not that I care about breachot.
I am sure that the produce back then was much more infested than today, but I have never heard of bans etc…
“an invalid hecsher”
Is this a hecsher for or by invalids? If its the first case then thats just all kinds of wrong to be kosher only for the disabled. If its the second case then I say great. Even rabbis in wheelchairs need jobs. Great for marketing too. I can just see the tag line “Certified by Rabbis On Wheels”.
BTW, has anyone gotten around to banning air yet? You might walk by a non Jewish restaurant and breathe deeply of treife cooking.
“What did our people do back in Europe before pesticides, bio engineering etc…? I am sure that the produce back then was much more infested than today, but I have never heard of bans etc…”
Impoverished Eastern European housewives had access to the most complex scientific equipment of their time.
They didn’t have veggies with bugs in Eastern Europe – all they had were root veggies!!!
That last comment was mine.
There are bugs on everything – they’re called bacteria. How strict will the frum world get? Will we get to the point where all veggies have to be dipped in bleach before they are edible?
There are bugs on everything – they’re called bacteria. How strict will the frum world get? Will we get to the point where all veggies have to be dipped in bleach before they are edible?
Eat Israeli fruit and vegetables – the bugs from the Gaza strip are Halal (i.e. KOSHER)
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