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Practically, kosher restaurants

שו”תCategory: HalachaPractically, kosher restaurants
asked 8 years ago

Hello Rabbi.
I am a yeshiva student and I don’t know how to handle matters of kosher for restaurants, etc.
I recognize two types of people: those who eat anywhere that has a kosher certificate under any supervision, and those who only eat at certain kosher establishments.
From the mouths of the latter, we hear news every morning that rabbinical kosher in most cities is beyond all scrutiny, while the former claim that it is impossible for a place where there is kosher supervision to be forbidden to eat there, and that this is just a stricture (perhaps reasonable, but not mandatory), etc.
It is important to emphasize that I am even talking about national religious people who do not trust most of the rabbinical authorities, and not necessarily about ultra-Orthodox Jews.
I don’t know how to proceed, are the strict ones merely stricter so that the blessing may come upon them, or is that not the case either (and are they merely Hasidim who rely only on the kosher of their Rebbe and everything else is prey).
Or they do the necessary thing that obliges everyone (as many of them claim).
thanks.


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
Hello. All kashrut organizations have problems. It is very difficult to supervise well, and interests and human nature are also not helpful here. There are bad rumors about every kashrut organization, and in many cases it is about the interests of rival organizations or politics. It seems to me that the Chief Rabbinate’s care, despite my lack of sympathy for them, is actually improving over the years. As a rule, when there is supervision, there is a presumption of kosher for the place. That doesn’t mean there can’t be problems, but it does mean that if there was a problem, you have a rape claim for it. We are left with the question of the spiritual harm from eating things that are not kosher in rape, but I wouldn’t worry about that. It is true that the regular supervision of the Rabbinate has stated minimum standards, meaning that there are things they do not supervise and are lenient. Of course, the rape claim does not apply to this, since they supervise on purpose, and anyone who chooses to eat there does so knowing that the standard is not the highest. Therefore, there is room to be stricter and eat only in a place that is supervised under the supervision of a Mehadrin.

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