Q&A: Baking with Camel Dung 🐫
Baking with Camel Dung 🐫
Question
A talented Haredi young woman from Meah Shearim invested in herself, studied at the Open University, enlisted in Military Intelligence, and continued as a researcher and lecturer at the Hebrew University.
She settled in a certain Bedouin tribe, lived with the mukhtar, studied him, and came to the Agassi forum to lecture about her research, and as usual they uploaded it to YouTube.
She is observant. In general, she also does not eat meat 🍖 for reasons of vegetarianism, and also keeps the laws of physical contact, seclusion, and many other things that are quite similar in their tradition to commandment observance, so things went fairly easily for her.
It turns out that some of her family came to her in Sinai for the festival of Shavuot (at the mountain that may be Mount Sinai?), brought cheeses from Israel, and baked cheesecakes in honor of the holiday. It turns out that they bake in ovens that are hollow spaces dug into camel 🐫 and she-camel dung.
Is that kosher?
Answer
At first glance, this is something that comes from a non-kosher source. But it is unfit even for a dog to eat, so it does not render anything forbidden.
Discussion on Answer
They did not eat the dung. It was the fuel.
People did eat from this.
Why does the Rabbi say it is permitted because it is unfit for a dog to eat?