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Swallowing utensils

שו”תCategory: HalachaSwallowing utensils
asked 6 years ago

Rabbi, I saw that someone asked here about Dror Pixler’s experiment and the Rabbi answered that if there is indeed no ingestion in modern-day utensils (say, stainless steel), then there is no need to treat these utensils as bodies, etc. My question is, is it possible to act this way in practice – for example, if I am abroad, can I cook in utensils owned by the homeowners who do not keep kosher after I wash them properly?


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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
I think that if it’s clear to you that this is one of the materials that was tested, there is room for leniency, at least in times of stress.

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עופר replied 6 years ago

What's the deal with the matter of time of need - why would there be room for leniency only in times of need - if the materials really don't absorb and emit? Apparently, this should be okay even in the beginning, right?

מיכי replied 6 years ago

Because there is a problem of authority to change prevailing laws in Israel, especially when there is no consensus among contemporary jurists.

בנימין גורלין replied 6 years ago

The authority to change the halakha is apparently unrelated to the subject of the case, the matter is clearly a reality with tools that did not exist in the time of Chazal?

מיכי replied 6 years ago

Not entirely simple. They set the limits of ingestion in a blanket manner and it seems to be a general principle, except for glass. The question is whether there is no plug here.
Beyond that, the question also arises regarding tools that existed in their time and today we have the possibility of testing ingestion.

י.ד. replied 6 years ago

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/408249&ved=2ahUKEwi5udvu-PXjAhUDxcQBHUdID9AQFjACegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw2LdV4t3o3Sm86ZdMjkJJSX

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed writes that the invention of soap stopped swallowing.

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