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asked 6 years ago

Hello Rabbi
Is it permissible to enjoy tasty videos? This is a company that publishes recipe preparation videos, many of which contain bacon with milk and butter together. (Geweld) Some people find these videos fun and relaxing during boring lectures and even help them concentrate.
I would be happy for an answer.
thanks

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

What’s the problem with this? Gentiles exchange recipes with each other. There is no prohibition against enjoying recipe videos, and in the case of foods that are considered forbidden to eat (such as pork), there is no prohibition against enjoying them at all.

ירמי replied 6 years ago

Jews who cook meat and milk together, is it permissible to enjoy watching?

שימי replied 6 years ago

Halachically, why not?

It might be a problem if you believe that the Torah teaches values or expects some kind of complete person. And even then I don't see a problem. And certainly according to Michi's view on the matter

מיכי replied 6 years ago

It is not meat and milk. Pork in milk is only a prohibition of pork. This is the “wonderful point” of the Maimonides in Piham”sh on the cuttings. Therefore, there is no prohibition of enjoyment here (meat in milk) but only a prohibition of eating. But even if there were a prohibition of enjoyment, watching such a video is not forbidden enjoyment.

ירמי replied 6 years ago

My question, of course, was about meat that is not pork. And why is watching not forbidden?
And to my mind, because the Torah forbade cooking meat and milk together. And eating it. And enjoying it.

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

This is not called enjoying the forbidden. If someone talks about mixing meat with milk or writes a poem about it, are you not allowed to enjoy it?

ק replied 6 years ago

Is tripe meat in milk also forbidden?
For example, is a cow that was not slaughtered kosher forbidden in milk?

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

In principle, yes, but there is a question of whether a prohibition applies to a prohibition.

ירמי replied 6 years ago

If the pleasure was created from the cooking of the meat and milk, then it is forbidden. A song created from watching forbidden cooking would also be forbidden. So let's say that there is only a song here and the source of the song does not matter. So watching cooking, which is direct eye pleasure from cooking by technological means. But the pleasure is from the cooking itself. Lapoki is listening to a song.

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

It wasn't created by cooking, but by watching it. Even if they told you that they cooked meat in milk and they did it in sand and water, you would enjoy it just as much.

ירמי replied 6 years ago

It seems to me that it is forbidden to feed a dog with forbidden pleasures. Or any other example, we will come up with and allow the pleasure because ”it was not created from the cooking but from watching it”. Or in this case, the pleasure is not from the cooking but from feeding the dog. According to your words, when is it forbidden?

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

On the contrary, it is evidence to the contrary. The prohibition regarding a dog is because with it you save on buying other food (ka mashtarshi). In other words, it is not the mere fact that it eats, but your saving that is the pleasure.

ירמי replied 6 years ago

My savings are also without cooking meat and milk together. “Even if they told you that they cooked meat in milk and you did it with sand and water, you would enjoy it just as much” as the rabbi wrote. What about watching?

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