Q&A: What is the Rabbi’s view regarding food cooked by non-Jews, especially when we have no connection at all with the person cooking it? And is there also some metaphysical element here, since the concern is intermarriage with them?
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What is the Rabbi’s view regarding food cooked by non-Jews, especially when we have no connection at all with the person cooking it? And is there also some metaphysical element here, since the concern is intermarriage with them?
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I do not believe in metaphysical or mystical matters of that sort. There is a prohibition, and we follow the parameters of the prohibition. The reason for the prohibition is also not metaphysical, but rather a concern about intermarriage. But in principle, we do not generally derive the law from the scriptural rationale, and not even in rabbinic laws.