Kitchen & Kashrut
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Halacha has much to say about what we can eat and how we prepare food. In this course, Rabbi David Brofsky will provide you with the necessary halachic tools for understanding how to manage your home kitchen in order to feel competent and comfortable when a decision must be made. The class will focus on the laws of meat and milk (basar be-chalav), mixtures (bitul, notein ta’am lifgam, nat bar nat, the transfer of taste, sinks, ovens, dishwashers, and knives), foods produced by non-Jews (chalav alum, pat alum, bishul alum, and stam yeinam), hechsher keilim, and other important topics in kashrut. We will focus on primary texts from the Mishna through contemporary poskim with a view to clarifying the practical requirements for kashrut in the home.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Basar b’Chalav Introduction
In this shiur we review the curriculum for the course, and begin to discuss the prohibition of basar bechalav, including its reasons (taamei ha-mitzvot), and the definition of the prohibition. We will touch upon the prohibition of marit ayin as well.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Basar B’Chalav 2
In this shiur, we will discuss the last sources of the previous packet which discuss whether basar bechalav applies to a neveila (i.e., meat which is not ritually slaughtered) and milk and marit ayin.
We will then begin our study of the laws meant to separate meat and milk. We will start with “waiting” – how long must one wait between meat and milk? Packet 2 is attached.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Basar b’chalav 3
In this shiur we will continue our discuss of waiting in between meat and milk. We will also discuss what is considered to me meat regarding this issue. Please learn the first page of the attached packet.
Kitchen & Kashrut: BASAR BCHALAV 4
In this shiur we will discuss waiting after cheese, placing meat and milk on the same table, table cloths, and eating meat and milk on the same table.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Basar BChalav (5) and Intro to Taarovot
This week we will discuss the prohibition of “dairy bread” and introduce the next unit – Taarovot
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut Taarovot (6)
This week we will continue our discussion of taam keikar, and bitul beshishim
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
This week we will continue discussing the laws of taarovot (mixtures)- including how to estimate “shishim”, a mixture of min bemino, and the principle “ein mevatlin issue lechatchila”.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24 Taarovet 8 Ein Mevatlin
This week we will discuss whether one may intentionally nullify a prohibited substance in a larger, kosher mixture. Known as Bitul Issue Le-Chatchila.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
This week we will discuss “notein ta’am lifgam”- ie if the taste of the non-kosher food is “spoiled”. We will focus upon the use of non-kosher pots, and what is known as “eino ben yomo”.
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Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut DISHWASHERS 2023/24
This week we will discuss washing meat and dairy dishes together, and the use of dishwashers for both meat and dairy utensils.
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Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24 – Ovens and Microwaves
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Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
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Kitchen & Kashrut: Bushul Alum 1
Kitchen & Kashrut: Bishul Akum 2
We will discuss the secnond half of the bishul akum source sheet, including the types of food subject to bishul akum and the definition of bishul yisrael.
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
Kitchen & Kashrut: Kitchen & Kashrut 2023/24
Rabbi David Brofsky is the author of halakhic compendiums on Tefilla, Moadim and Avelut. He teaches at Midreshet Lindenbaum and Midreshet Torah V’Avodah, and he writes a weekly shiur for Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Virtual Beit Midrash (VBM). Rabbi Brofsky also serves as the Rabbinic Liaison for Giyur K'Halacha.