Q&A: A Utensil Purchased from an Electric Warehouse Store
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A Utensil Purchased from an Electric Warehouse Store
Question
Hello Rabbi. If a utensil was manufactured by non-Jews and I bought it from an Israeli store, why does it need to be immersed? In that case, isn’t it considered as though I bought it from a Jew?
If I bought a utensil and then changed my mind about it and sold it to another Jew—why does he need to immerse it if it has already left the non-Jew’s possession?
Answer
I saw such a line of reasoning here:
https://net-sah.org/faq/21590
But simply speaking, the practice is to immerse it, and the reasoning seems to me to be that the utensil was already obligated in immersion when it came into the first Jew’s possession, and therefore that obligation remains in force until it is immersed.