Kosher certificate – prohibited foods?

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asked 6 years ago

Hello,
Is it possible for a halachic reality in which a person eating foods with a “kashrut certificate” will stumble upon forbidden foods, and if not, what is the reason why many rabbis instruct to check the “kashrut level” (it seems impossible to me)?

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

I didn’t understand the question. Isn’t it possible that the rabbi or the overseer is wrong? Perhaps you are asking what the ruling is if the overseer was wrong, whether the food was forbidden. Simply put, yes – except that it was forced or accidental. What’s more, if it can be checked, then you are not forced but at most accidental, and then there is a transgression. And beyond that, with regard to forbidden foods, Chazal and the Rishonim claim that there is a foolishness of the heart in eating them (“and you have become ignorant of them”), and therefore are concerned even if there is no prohibition in this on the formal halakhic level.

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בנימין גורלין replied 6 years ago

Why does the rabbi recommend eating kosher foods at noon (https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%9B%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%A6%D7%94%D7%A8)? After all, they don't check the tzitzits of the slaughterhouses and slaughterhouses to see where the line between the desirable and the desirable, between the possible and the impossible is drawn in all that concerns kosher? And in general, what is that formal halachic level?

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

I don't know the details of Tzohar's supervision, but the organization is known to me as one that is run correctly and properly by senior people. If they don't check the tzitzit, that may be a good consideration on their part. Not necessarily checking the tzitzit is indeed the proper course of action, both because of people's loyalty and from a practical point of view, if you create a sense of partnership with the business owner, perhaps the kashrut will actually improve. And beyond all of this, there is of course an interest in damaging the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate for the benefit of all of us.