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Links to kosher symbol lists. Each list is obviously only as reliable as its source

cRc: http://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php

KosherQuest: https://kosherquest.org/kosher-symbols/

Approved alcoholic drinks from the Rabbanut.  http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/wp-content/uploads/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D.pdf

These are NOT Orthodox: https://sites.google.com/site/nonorthodoxkosher/home (even though some may look legit)


Informative post regarding Kashrus Agencies
Every hashgacha has +&-.


You can also submit any kashrus questions at
https://www.askcrc.org/ask
https://oukosher.org/ask-kosher-question/
https://www.star-k.org/ask-rabbi choose General Consumer Kashrus Questions in the Subject/Topic Dropdown list
https://www.ok.org/contact/ choose Kosher in the Attention Dropdown list



Author Topic: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread  (Read 1277032 times)

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6040 on: March 25, 2024, 04:57:23 PM »
He is clearly saying it is specific to Purim and it would be based on the vertle quoted. In general, this story does not seem to have Mar bar Rav Ashi chasum alah and has very little detail.
Where is there any indication that it only applies to purim?
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6041 on: March 25, 2024, 04:58:43 PM »
Where is there any indication that it only applies to purim?

the last paragraph?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6042 on: March 25, 2024, 05:00:52 PM »
the last paragraph?
Ok. But why is Purim different?
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6043 on: March 25, 2024, 05:03:12 PM »
See here:
לסמוך על כשרות בעל הבית - דעת הגרש"ז אוירבך
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בכמה מקומות בספר "ועלהו לא יבול" הובאו הנחיות מר' שלמה זלמן אוירבך בדבר הנהגת הכשרות הראויה בשעת התארחות.
לשאלתי אודות תלמידות מחוץ לארץ, המתארחות לסעודות שבת אצל משפחות שונות, כיצד ינהגו בעניני כשרות - השיבני בהחלטיות: "תגיד להן שכל הכשר הוא טוב", אם כי ודאי שכל אחד רשאי להחמיר לעצמו. מפי הרב שלמה גוטל (ועלהו לא יבול ב, עמ' סו)

אחרי שהתחתנתי באתי אל הרב ושאלתיו: בבית הורי ואצל חותני אוכלים דברים שהם בהשגחת רבנויות שונות בארץ שאינני אוכל מהם בביתי. כיצד עלי לנהוג כשאני מתארח אצלם?

וענה: ספרו לי שני עדי ראיה שהיו נוכחים ברית של משפחה ספרדית, והרב יוסף חיים זוננפלד שהיה נוכח שם אכל מהבשר שהיה משחיטה של ספרדים. כשאתה מתארח אצל משפחתך או אצל אנשים אחרים שהינם יראי שמים אתה צריך לאכול מכל מה שנותנים לך, הרי לא מאכילים אותך נבלות וטרפות! מעיקר הדין כל ההכשרים הם טובים [היה מדובר על הכשרים של רבנויות ידועות בארץ], אלא שבהכשרים מסויימים מחמירים בדברים שונים שאינם נוגעים לעיקר הדין.

העזתי מעט את פני ושאלתיו: האם גם הרב נוהג כך בעצמו? וענה: בודאי! כשאני נמצא בחתונה, אני אוכל גם עוף בהכשר כזה שבבית אני לא מכניס. שמעתי מהרב מ. ס. (שם)

ר' מאיר חזוני שאל את הרב: אצל חותני שהינו ספרדי אוכלים באותן צלחות זכוכית גם בשר וגם חלב (כמובן אחרי שטיפה ביניהם), גם מאכלי חמץ כל השנה וגם אוכל בפסח - 1. כיצד אני צריך לנהוג כשאני נמצא אצלם? 2. כיצד על אשתי לנהוג?

תשובה: 1. במשך כל השנה תאכל אצלם באותם כלים, אך בפסח תחמיר ואל תאכל בכלים אלו - הם יבינו את זה, כי בפסח הרבה אנשים מחמירים בדברים שונים. 2. לאשתך תתן לעשות מה שהיא רוצה כשהיא נמצאת בבית הוריה, וגם בפסח אם תרצה לאכול באותם כלים אל תעיר לה על כך, ושתעשה מה שהיא רוצה. כמובן שבביתך שלך תסדר שיאכלו בכלים נפרדים (שם א, עמ' קסז).

הבאתי לרב משלוח מנות, וביקשתי ממנו שיאמר לי דבר תורה בקשר לפורים. הרב אמר לי: בפורים כל אחד לוקח מחבירו משלוח מנות ואין בודקים אחד לשני איזה הכשר יש למאכלים. אם כל אחד ידחה את המשלוח מנות של חברו בגלל שהוא מחמיר שלא לאכול מהכשרים מסויימים, אי אפשר יהיה לקיים את מצות משלוח מנות איש לרעהו כמו שצריך, ותהרס שמחת החג (שם, עמ' רמח).

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6044 on: March 25, 2024, 06:32:33 PM »
I am sometimes accused of overthinking things. I am still mulling over whether that accusation has merit.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6045 on: April 03, 2024, 05:39:22 PM »



















These items all came mixed in pesach orders.
PLEASE CHECK EVERY ITEM YOU BUY, EVEN TWO OF THE SAME ITEM

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6046 on: April 03, 2024, 05:51:21 PM »
What's going on with cream cheese?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6047 on: April 03, 2024, 06:32:20 PM »
What's going on with cream cheese?


Xanthan gum comes up every few years.
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6048 on: April 03, 2024, 06:42:28 PM »
Xanthan gum comes up every few years.
I can survive with the cancelled program but how will I make do without cheesecake?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6049 on: April 03, 2024, 06:48:54 PM »


















These items all came mixed in pesach orders.
PLEASE CHECK EVERY ITEM YOU BUY, EVEN TWO OF THE SAME ITEM

Especially if you are going away and you think that you can rely on the packer who doesn’t read Hebrew. Don’t want any non-KFP pickles ending up on your table

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6050 on: April 04, 2024, 04:44:58 AM »
These items all came mixed in pesach orders.
PLEASE CHECK EVERY ITEM YOU BUY, EVEN TWO OF THE SAME ITEM
In IL we get to do this all year round.  8)
Though it gets worse around Pesach time...
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6051 on: April 04, 2024, 06:43:34 AM »
In IL we get to do this all year round.
Come on, you really check every bag of osem bisli if it has a hechsher ?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6052 on: April 04, 2024, 07:19:22 AM »
Come on, you really check every bag of osem bisli if it has a hechsher ?
You don't?
Okay, to be precise: in my local Maayan, I check every milk product and every bottle of wine, except around Pesach when I check everything. But whenever I'm further out or in a place with different standards, yes - I check everything.
Let me ask you: how many times did you get something that was heter mechira by mistake? How many times did you get something that was made on a different run with an MK instead of a Rubin? How many products that normally have OU but had absolutely nothing? How many times - and this happened in Maayan - that they put Rav Weitzman milk on the shelf (not even Tenuva Mehadrin)?
Things like this have happened to me more than ten times. You learn your lesson eventually.
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6053 on: April 04, 2024, 07:26:03 AM »
You don't?
Okay, to be precise: in my local Maayan, I check every milk product and every bottle of wine, except around Pesach when I check everything. But whenever I'm further out or in a place with different standards, yes - I check everything.
Let me ask you: how many times did you get something that was heter mechira by mistake? How many times did you get something that was made on a different run with an MK instead of a Rubin? How many products that normally have OU but had absolutely nothing? How many times - and this happened in Maayan - that they put Rav Weitzman milk on the shelf (not even Tenuva Mehadrin)?
Things like this have happened to me more than ten times. You learn your lesson eventually.
this was a uniquely Israeli problem until more recent times. Fir many years there was an unspoken rule that we didn't put hashgacha on a label that had an identical non kosher label in the same region. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6054 on: April 04, 2024, 07:39:38 AM »
this was a uniquely Israeli problem until more recent times. Fir many years there was an unspoken rule that we didn't put hashgacha on a label that had an identical non kosher label in the same region. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.
Who changed? The manufacturers or the hashgacha?
I still find that most pesach products have a different label than the same product year round (although I would prefer if the difference was starker sometimes)

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6055 on: April 04, 2024, 07:42:22 AM »
Insider info says "Most of the [chicken] shechita this week was pasuled by the hashgacha." Is this a normal occurrence?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6056 on: April 04, 2024, 07:43:26 AM »
Who changed? The manufacturers or the hashgacha?
both but the blame lies on the hashgacha

I still find that most pesach products have a different label than the same product year round (although I would prefer if the difference was starker sometimes)
far and few between

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6057 on: April 04, 2024, 08:05:27 AM »
You don't?
Okay, to be precise: in my local Maayan, I check every milk product and every bottle of wine, except around Pesach when I check everything. But whenever I'm further out or in a place with different standards, yes - I check everything.
Let me ask you: how many times did you get something that was heter mechira by mistake? How many times did you get something that was made on a different run with an MK instead of a Rubin? How many products that normally have OU but had absolutely nothing? How many times - and this happened in Maayan - that they put Rav Weitzman milk on the shelf (not even Tenuva Mehadrin)?
Things like this have happened to me more than ten times. You learn your lesson eventually.
ok so i only use badatz or volove  and not for meat or wine. (for those I bli"n try not to rely on hechsherim) .That leaves most products to be pretty much always the same .Yes milk I always check  because it constantly changes. But I do you (or your wife ) check every bag of osem bisli, pasta etc. that is always the same?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #6058 on: April 04, 2024, 08:07:23 AM »
Insider info says "Most of the [chicken] shechita this week was pasuled by the hashgacha." Is this a normal occurrence?
Was pasuled or canceled because of too many treifos?

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« Reply #6059 on: April 04, 2024, 08:14:16 AM »
ok so i only use badatz or volove  and not for meat or wine. (for those I bli"n try not to rely on hechsherim) Yes milk I always check  because it constantly changes. But I do you (or your wife ) check every bag of osem bisli pasta etc. that is always the same?
I told you - not in Maayan, yes in places like out of town or in Osher Ad or Rami Levi.

Was pasuled or canceled because of too many treifos?
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