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WE WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A חג כשר ושמח! 3 SHARE YOUR SPIRIT 4 QUESTIONS FOR THE ~ HEALTHY SPIRIT dear reader, 5 Organic FOOd e are living in exciting times. Our Sages say, “B’Nissan ni - Keeping KOsher in... wgalu u’b’nissan asidim KATHMANDU 6 l’higo’el… [In the month of Nissan our FROM THE DESK OF forefathers were redeemed from Egypt, 8 RABBI DON YOEL LEVY and in Nissan we will once again be re - deemed]” ( Rosh HaShanah 11a). VEGETABLE CHECKING When Moshiach comes the whole 9 FrOm the ~ Vegetable checK - world will be filled with revealed holi - ing guide ness; the world will be a kosher place. Just like we prepare for Shabbos on Erev A GUIDE TO TEVILAS KEILIM Shabbos , and even taste some of the Shabbos food, today, as we 10 by rabbi Yosef d. chanowitz stand at the threshold of Moshiach , it is our responsibility to pre - pare the world to do all that we can to be ready for that splendid A SLICE OF MEMORIES: time. 16 bOstOn Fruit slices Baruch Hashem , today there are hundreds of thousands kosher products readily available for anyone who wants. With the in - DID YOU KNOW... crease of manufactured food, an abundance of products were 18 riVer Facts widely available, and hardworking and dedicated people saw to it that the food would be made kosher. Holy seforim are printed PESACH RECIPE in so many languages, and are available online and on smart - 19 gnOcchi with beeF phones. cheeK sauce The past twenty years have seen such a tremendous growth in electronics and mobile access, where vast amounts of products, WHO’S BEHIND THE ~ knowledge and information is available with a click or the touch interview with rabbi rapoport 20 on a screen. Once again, we are faced with the challenge of mak - CHASSIDIC INSIGHTS ing it holy and kosher. 22 PESACH SHEINI It is with gratitude to Hashem that the ~ was granted this task compiled by dina Fraenkel by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and given the mandate to monitor and administer a 23 SOUL NUTRITION whole new area of the digital domain, which will soon be known as .Kosher (like .com and .org), where the kosher consumer can be confident that every site ending in .Kosher will be kosher with - out compromise. KOSHER SPIRIT Pesach 5774 Best wishes for a kosher and frielichen Pesach , editOr-in-chieF: Rabbi Chaim Fogelman Rabbi Chaim Fogelman Editor-in-Chief editOr: Dovi Scheiner assOciate editOr: Dina Fraenkel design: Spotlight Design Scan the QR code with your smartphone to We welcome your comments, receive a PDF subscription submissions and letters to the editor. to Kosher Spirit Mail: 391 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213 Email: [email protected] © 2014. No portion of this publication may be reprinted without written consent from OOPS! In our last issue we incorrectly listed the location of West the publisher. India Spice. West India Spice is located in Grenada, not Canada. FEEDBACK

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Dear Kosher Spirit, I read your Chanukah issue with great interest. I always enjoy Kosher Spirit for its informative articles. I especially enjoy reading details on hashgacha , since my brother in law is a mashgiach in the food industry. Your articles address some of the intricate is - sues he deals with. While reading the article Soul Nutrition, I was amazed at the facts presented. However, when reading the closing sen - tence I was appalled! To write, “ So on November 28 th, 2013, enjoy your turkey and your latkes”, is, in my opinion an outright offense. The holiday of Thanksgiving is clearly a Christian one. To celebrate it is in the category of idolatry, which is one of the three grave sins a person must give his life for. Rabbi Avigdor Miller Zatzal was known to say that it is an issur d’oraisa to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Yes, I am aware of how much turkey is sold in the kosher stores this season. But to encour - age it? I would expect better editing from such a professional magazine. With much Hatzlacha, FT Is it Kosher for Pesach ? Kosher Spirit responds: Dear FT Thank you for your letter. We appreciate the points you brought forward, but according to other poskim , Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday or one NLOAD based in avoda zara . Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l writes (paraphrased), “In regards DOW E THE FRE to joining a Thanksgiving party, since this is not brought down in the non-Jew - APP! ish writings as a holiday, and it is just a remembrance of those who lived here, there is no issur to make a meal and eat turkey at the meal.” ( Igros Moshe Y.D. Download the FREE Kosher 4:11:4, see Igros Moshe Y.D. 4:12.) Food Guide app and get the most updated list of the In addition, in a Sicha on 19 Kislev 5747, the Lubavitcher Rebbe ztz”l praises Kosher for Passover Thanksgiving as the foundation of America, and confirmation that our country products that ~ Kosher was built on faith in G-d as our Creator and Director. The Rebbe connects certifies. Chanukah and Thanksgiving, saying that both are days that we commemorate It’s like having a rabbi at your side whenever you saving the righteous from the hands of evil and the weak from the strong. go shopping... I am sorry you took offense, but as you see, there are differing halachic and hashkafic opinions on the issue. Best wishes for a Freilichen Chanukah !

Dear Kosher Spirit, Visit our updated website: Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my letter. I www.OK.org/Pesach must say that you shed light on an issue that has been bugging me for a long time of why so many Yidden are indeed celebrating with eating turkey etc. Once again, I enjoy each one of your Kosher Spirit magazines from cover to cover. B’Hatzlacha, IMPORTANT: When buying your wine for FT Pesach , make sure it has a hechsher . Many P.S. The 8 facts on the eye were amazing! What nifloes haboira ! shmitta wines use the same lable but are * Letters may be edited for clarity and/or space constraints. not certified. The ~ receives many letters/emails with kosher questions...

Dear Kosher Spirit, Is it permissible to use a hand soap that contains milk ingredients (or derivatives) and possible meat ingredients (or derivatives)?

The ~ responds : ews are forbidden to benefit or derive pleasure from a cooked mixture Jof milk and meat. in order for the product to be prohibited from being used, the following conditions would need to be met: 1. the fats are from animals that are kosher species of animals. 2. the relevant ingredients are cooked together. 3. the relevant ingredients are edible when they are cooked together. 4. the volume of both the milk and animal ingredients is more than 1/60 of the total mixture (at the time they are mixed).

the ~ has extensive experience in food chemical production, much of which has crossover applications with the production for soap ingredients. based on our experience, it is unlikely that all the required conditions to prohibit the soap would be met. therefore, it would be permitted to use this kind of soap. One can also choose to be stringent and refrain from using the product until more research can be done on the particular soap.

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www.Kosherspirit.com 5 t’s Erev Pesach , and Jews around the world are hus - the team of workers who bring this tling and bustling to prepare the final touches on humongous seder to life. When it their sedarim . From arranging the seder plate to comes to preparing and executing a I seder on such a large scale, one can peeling potatoes and cracking walnuts, there is much never have enough help. to be done and never enough time to do it. For those Lital, an Israeli who was backpack - hosting a public seder, the preparation is double or even ing through Nepal with a few of her triple the amount of a regular one. Public sedarim are friends, had arranged to spend Pe - held by the hundreds around the world every year. In sach in Kathmandu, and arrived at the Chabad House two weeks before recent years, public sedarim have been turned into all Pesach . What she found upon arrival inclusive Pesach getaways and resorts. The destina - was astonishing; an army of workers, tions are endless; from Palm Desert to Cancun to Tus - backpackers, and friends working to - cany, Pesach has become the most exciting of Jewish gether to bring this seder to life. “It holidays. But of all the Pesach getaways to choose from, was like one big, Israeli reunion,” she recalls. none is more exotic, or as big, as the seder hosted in Along with hundreds of other Is - Kathmandu, Nepal. raeli backpackers, a group of young students and two couples that the Lif - This famous seder has claimed its mandu, attracts people from all walks shitz’s brought out to Kathmandu, title as the largest public seder in the of life, and grows every year. Such an she spent two weeks preparing for world, hosting well over one thou - operation takes a lot of effort and cre - the seder of a lifetime. Kosher food is sand people every single year. The ativity, especially when it comes to hard to come by in Nepal, but it’s not seder , hosted by Rabbi and Mrs. Lif - kosher food. Living in a remote loca - impossible to find. Chabad of Kath - shitz, Chabad Shluchim to Kath - tion may make kosher resources hard mandu has a restaurant, where a ma - to come by, but it’s far from impossi - jority of the food for the seder was ble to put together a beautiful, mem - prepared and cooked. While some in - orable, and delicious Pesach seder for gredients, such as vegetables, can be all to enjoy. found locally, matzah and wine were They say it takes a village to raise a ordered from Israel in mass amounts. child. Take that same village, move “You would not believe how many them to Kathmandu, and you have boxes of matzah they had in storage KEEPING KOSHER FOR PESACH IN...

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6 www.OK.org They say it takes a village to raise a tual seder . “The venue had a commer - cial kitchen similar to what you’d find child. Take that same village, move in a hotel—massive pots, huge ovens. them to Kathmandu, and you have It cut the cooking time in half.” After cooking for days at a time, executing the team of workers who bring this the actual seder felt like a breeze. humongous seder to life. “There are actually two sedarim held at the venue,’ the couple explained. “The main seder , which is conducted in Hebrew, is run by Rabbi Lifshitz. There is a second seder , conducted in English, that takes place in the same venue, right outside of the room where the main seder is conducted.” While over 1,500 hundred people took part in the seder last year, only 400 of them stayed for the meal. “Once we arrived at the meal, we —it was unbelievable!” Chickens, time and effort goes into preparing moved everyone around so that they which Rabbi Lifshitz and the team of such a vast amount of food. “It was an would be closer to one another, to rabbis shechted themselves, arrived in incredible operation,” they explained. give it a homier feel. The food was crates by the hundreds several days “We arrived a week before Pesach , plated and served by the staff so that before Pesach . Along with local work - and most of the preparations had al - we would be free to help conduct and ers whom the Lifshitzs’ hired, it took ready been taken care of. What was explain the seder .” a team of about fifty people to bring left to do immediately before the hol - The most important part was the seder to its final form. Days of iday began was actually cooking the making sure that everyone felt at peeling potatoes, boiling carrots and food.” How does one even begin home. From the massive amounts of roasting chickens reached a majestic cooking food for 1,500 people? They food, wine and matzah to the heart - pinnacle on the night of the seder . combine the use of the Chabad warming tune of Ma Nishtanah sung A young, newly married couple House kitchen, as well as the kitchen by the youngest in the crowd, one who went to help conduct the seder in the restaurant and the kitchen of thing’s for sure: A seder like this is was shocked to find just how much the venue they rented out for the ac - surely an affair to remember.

www.Kosherspirit.com 7 KOSHER Rabbi Don Yoel Levy ~ CERTIFICATION CEO/Kashrus Administrator

From the Desk of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy

also used to process foods containing lard, a fat derived from pigs. In the 1960s, my father began working in the field of kashrus . At that time, the accepted methodology in the kashrus industry relied heav - ily on assumption. This was never enough for my father. His love of truth and thirst for knowledge led him to become an expert in chemistry and food science—all to ensure he fully understood the food industry and how to make sure every food he certified was completely kosher. I remem - ber Tom Kallen, the owner of Bakeline in Chicago, n the early 1950s there was a dairy farm mentioning to me how he wished he could get across the road from Congregation Sons of into Rabbi Berel Levy’s head, so impressed was he iIsrael in Lakewood. This was back when, as with his vast knowledge of the world of food pro - my mother says, “Lakewood was a horse and cessing. buggy place”, a resort town filled with hotels Rabbi Berel Levy passed away on 5 Nissan, 27 primarily occupied from late November until years ago. Today, because of the foundation he after Pesach . laid, ~ Kosher Certification remains attuned to My father, Rabbi Berel Levy, OB”M, wasn’t offi - the very latest in food technology and requires of cially involved in kashrus yet; in fact he was the its companies the strictest of kosher standards. principal at the Betzalel Hebrew Day School, For example, our insistence on a Mashgiach where I studied as a young boy. Even then, twenty Temidi having the only set of keys to the kitchen years before entering the world of kashrus certifi - in all meat restaurants and catering facilities, even cation, my father would investigate everything we when the owner is a Torah observant Jew, is some - ate to make sure it was 100% kosher. thing that my father insisted on thirty years ago. I remember my father visiting the dairy farm Recent events in Flatbush, Monsey and Boro Park before Pesach to investigate the entire milking have confirmed his wisdom. process to make sure it was fully kosher. His example of seeing the big picture and always Today this sounds obvious; however, when I thinking ahead, inspired us to acquire the rights to was a young boy the accepted method of ascer - a new domain on the internet called .kosher. taining the kashrus status of an item was to read .Kosher offers ~ Kosher Certification an impor - its ingredients. If all the ingredients sounded tant new platform to educate and promote the kosher, the item was considered kosher. Certain mitzvah of kashrus without compromise globally. ingredients may have seemed innocent enough, It is an exciting time for the worlds of kashrus leading most Yidden to assume the item was and food technology and ~ Kosher Certification kosher. is proud to stand at the forefront, leading the way, One such ingredient was vegetable shortening, inspired, as always, by Rabbi Berel Levy, OB”M. used to make cookies, cakes and candies. My fa - ther discovered that often the equipment used to Rabbi Don Yoel Levy make items containing vegetable shortening was Kashrus Administrator

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8 www.OK.org PREPARING FOR THE SEDER Vegetable Checking Tips

Vegetables should be washed with Kosher for Passover soap. Lettuce Endive The following types of lettuce must be 1. Cut off bottoms. If outside leaves are checked according to the instructions not clean, remove them. If top is below: ARUGULA, BOSTON LETTUCE, spoiled, remove it. ESCAROLE, GREEN LEAF, ICEBERG, ROMAINE, RED LEAF. 2. Check first 3 leaves from both sides. If they are clean, separate the leaves. 1. Separate leaves from the head, opening all folds and creases. 3. Put in water with soap for 5 minutes, and then swish vigorously for 2 minutes. Empty 2. Soak the lettuce in water with soap for five basin by removing endives with both hands minutes, and then rub each leaf between (holding loosely) in small bunches and your fingers. Empty basin by removing shaking them under the water. lettuce with both hands (holding loosely) in small bunches and shaking them under the 4. Put endives in a clean basin of fresh water. water. Rinse each leaf, on both sides, under a strong stream of water. Put in a clean basin of fresh 3. Put lettuce in a clean basin of fresh water. water, swishing for at least 2 minutes. Repeat Swish vigorously. Repeat this step until this step until there is no foam on the surface there is no foam on the surface of the water. of the water. 4. Rinse each piece of lettuce, one-by-one, 5. Remove the endives and place on a clean under a strong stream of water. surface. Check at least 3 samples (on both 5. Check one-by-one (on both sides) in good sides) in good lighting. A light box or lighting. A light box or fluorescent light is fluorescent light is recommended for this recommended for this procedure. procedure.

Q: Can one check vegetables on A: Yes, if one dilutes the soap and washes the vegetables close Shabbos and avoid the melachos to the time the meal will begin, he will then be separating food of borer (separating the bad from non-edibles in close proximity to the meal, which is not a problem. Since one is not sure there are insects and one is not from good), choivel (wounding), sure that the soap will kill the insects, there is no intention mimareich (smoothing)? ( ) to kill the insects so it is not a problem. מתכוון

From the ~ Vegetable Checking Guide Get the full guide FREE at www.ok.org, on your iOS device in the iTunes Store, or for Android in the Google Play Store. www.Kosherspirit.com 9 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO Tevilas Keilim

By Rabbi Yosef D. Chanowitz

udel and Gittel were married for a couple As soon as Purim was over, Yudel of years. Each year one set of parents would learned the laws of Pesach extensively. invite them to come for Pesach . Until this year Soon after, he and his wife Gittel started the grueling task of cleaning they always accepted the invitation—they the entire house room by room. Once loved spending Pesach with their extended they finally finished cleaning the families. This year Yudel and Gittel finally de - kitchen, it was time for them to Ycided to make Pesach at their own home. They knew kasher the kitchen and purchase an that the preparations would be daunting, but the entire new set of Pesach equipment. thought of hosting their own Sedarim was enough Yudel consulted with his rov and kash - of a motivator. They pictured the sight of their chil - learned the proper methods of ering the sinks, countertops, tables, dren reciting the Mah Nishtana at their own table stove and oven. Then, he and his wife and they were inspired to take on the task. went to the store to purchase all the

10 www.OK.org many of these utensils require tevilas [but rather, with cold foods], should keilim , how do we know which ones be passed through [ mikvah ] water by require tevila ?” you [right away, since they do not They prepared a list of the equip - need to be purged].” The Torah in - ment that they purchased and asked cludes equipment that were used their rov a sheilah . The equipment in - “with fire” (for hot food) and equip - cluded: metal pots, metal lids, an ment used “without fire” (for cold enameled cast iron egg pot, Teflon food), as well as new equipment – coated frying pans, disposable alu - they all require tevilas keilim. 2 minum sheet pans, Pyrex dishes, red From these pesukim our Cha - stained china dishes, glass cups, chomim extracted the following metal cutlery, vegetable peelers, a can guidelines about tevilas keilim : opener, a wine opener, a nut cracker, 1. The equipment must be entirely a wood cutting board, plastic storage clean before it is immersed into the containers, a crystal pitcher, a metal mikvah waters, otherwise they will knife with wood handle, a netilas ya - remain impure. 3 dayim pitcher, a toaster oven, an elec - 2. Only equipment used for a meal tric food processer, a hot water urn requires tevila . This is similar to and an electric hand blender. koshering , which is only done for To help them sort through this ex - equipment used with food. 4 tensive list of equipment and deter - 3. The only materials that require mine which items require tevila in a tevila are those that are made of mikvah , we need to take a closer look metal. However, wood, earthenware into the laws of tevilas keilim . and stone do not require tevila . The Talmud states that glass also requires INTRODUCTION tevilas keilim , since it is similar to metal since both can be repaired with The Torah discusses the laws of the heat of a fire (wood, earthenware tevilas keilim in Bamidbar. 1 After the and stone cannot). 5 Jewish people returned from a battle 4. If the equipment was purchased with the Midyanites, they came back or gifted from a non-Jew, it requires with many possessions that they took tevila . If it was just borrowed or from the enemy, including equip - leased from a non-Jew, or if one pur - ment. Hashem tells Elazar, the son of chased metal and manufactured a Aharon the Kohen Gadol , that in ad - utensil himself, it would not require dition to purifying and kosherizing tevila. 6 the equipment, the Jewish people From the source quoted earlier, it must immerse the metal equipment appears that tevilas keilim is a mitz - in the mikvah . vah d’oraisa (Biblical), which is the necessary items for their Pesach “The gold, the silver, the copper, the opinion of many Rishonim . Other Ris - kitchen. iron, the tin and the lead, whatever is honim disagree and are of the opinion On their way out of the store, Git - used in fire, must be passed through that this mitzvah is d’rabbonon (Rab - tel turned to Yudel and reminded him fire by you, and then it will be puri - binical) and the reason for the mitz - that these utensils were not yet fied. They must, however, [also] be vah is to add a level of kedusha to our kosher to use. Some might require cleansed with sprinkling water [alter - equipment by immersing them into a toiveling in a mikvah . To which Yudel natively, with mikvah water]. What - mikvah. 7 Some Poskim resolve this responded, “You may be correct that ever (utensils) are not used in fire disagreement between the above Ris -

, ç ” á ä å î ” ë ä å á ú ë ï ë å ( æ - ä ” ä æ ” é ô à ” ë à î é ë å ì é à å ä ú é ë å ë æ é ì ë é ð ä ” à é á î í ù æ ” ò ï à ë å , ï é î ç á å ù é î ù ú ù é ì ë ÷ ø ø é ù ë ä ì ê é ø ö ã î å ì ï ” á î ø ä å , õ ö å ç ä ø á ã å ä ã å ì ç é è å ò é î ì , í ù é ” ù ø á ï é é ò å . â ë - à ë ÷ å ñ ô à ” ì ô ú å è î . 1 ò î ù î í ù í ” á î ø ä ’ ì ú å è ù ô î í ì å à . ” å î ã ú å ë ú î é ì ë ë ä ð ÷ ú ï ä ì ù é å ø á ú ù ð ù î ú ù ä à ì ù ù ã ç é ì ë ë ” â ì é á è ä ì ê é ø ö ú å ÷ ð ì ê é ø ö ù ” í é î á å ø é á ò ú “ ÷ å ñ ô ä î . ( à ” å â å í ” à ø ) é ” ù ø é ù ø ô î á å , í ù ï ” á î ø ù å ø é ô á â ” ä ð ë ä å ú ” ø ô ä ë ” ë å . ï ð á ø ã î à å ä ù ä ù ò î ë å ï é ç å ÷ ì á à ì à å ð ù à ì “ í ù ’ î â . 6 . í ì å ò î . í ã å ÷ å à ï ð å ö á í ù é î ù ú ù í é ì ë ã î å ì é ” ù ø . 2 ú ë ø ò î í é ì ì ë ç ” ã ù á ä à ø å . í ” á î ø ä é ø á ã . ” à ì ï é ì å à ù ì á à ä ’ é ä ù é â å ñ ’ å ì ì å ë ä æ å . ” á ä æ ä ú à ê à “ ÷ å ñ ô ä î . 5 à ” á ù ø á ï é é ò å , í ù é ” ù ø å : ä ” ò ó ã æ ” ò ’ î â . 4 ï ” á î ø ä å , ” í é î á å ø é á ò ú “ ÷ å ñ ô ä î í é ù ã ç í ù é î ù ú ù í é ì ë ì ù ÷ å ñ ô å ú å à î ã î å ì æ ” ä ã à ò ” å ù á å . ä æ á ú å ò é ã ä ’ á ì ì ë ú ” é è , ú ” ä ò é ” ù ø ú ” ä î å ä æ ù ú å è é ù ä . 7 ì é ã á ä , ì æ ø á ä , ú ù ç ð ä , ó ñ ë ä , á ä æ ä - ú å ë ú î ê é ø ö å ù à á à á ù ø á ã å ä æ é à “ ã ” ù ã ” á ä ” å ú . ” ø ä è å “ ï é î ç á ÷ ñ ô ã ç ” ñ â ” ë ù ’ é ñ å à ” ë ñ è ” ð ÷ ’ é ñ ç ” å à à ÷ ô ú ñ î ú ” ä ò ï ” á î ø ä . ó ” é ø ä å , à ” á ù ø ä í å é ð é î å ì à í à í é ÷ ô ú ñ î ù é å . ú ø ô å ò ä å . ” ä ã å ò ñ é ì ë ä æ ø î å à é å ä ù à á å ø é ù ë ä ì . ’ á ú å è î ç ” é ç ù ” å ÷ ì á ò ” ò å , ú ” ä î à å ä ù ’ ì ä ) í ” á î ø ä ú è é ù ï ë ø à á î à ” á ù ø ä , ä é ì ’ î â ä ã . ï ð á ø ã î ä å ä ú é ë å ë æ í ì å à . ë ” â ì ì ë á ï é à ø å ñ é à î ã ø å ñ é à î ä ø ù ë ä é ã ë æ ” é à í ì å à ” á ä æ ä ú à ê à “ ÷ å ñ ô ä î ã î å ì é ” ù ø . 3

www.Kosherspirit.com 11 honim by explaining that the mitzvah ever, one may be more stringent and only coated on the inside, one should of toiveling keilim is d’oraisa (Biblical), toivel without a brocha. 13 toivel without a brocha . If it is only however the prohibition of not using coated on the outside, no tevila is re - LEATHER Does not require tevila . them before immersion is d’rabbonon quired. 16 If a metal or glass utensil is (Rabbinical). 8 Other Poskim disagree WOOD Does not require tevila . coated with earthenware, Teflon or and hold that the entire mitzvah is STONE, BONE, HORN & MARBLE enamel, one should toivel without a d’oraisa . Does not require tevila . brocha. 17 Metal or glass equipment One may not use a vessel, even that was painted still requires tevila EARTHENWARE, BONE CHINA once, prior to tevila . If one accidently with a brocha since paint does not Does not require tevila . used equipment which was not yet change the status of the equipment. 18 immersed in a mikvah , the food may PORCELAIN Some require tevila be eaten. 9 However, one should re - without a brocha , some do not. 14

One may not use a vessel, even once, prior to tevila...

move the food from the vessel as soon as he realizes it was not im - mersed in a mikvah . Some Rishonim say that tevilas keilim is a Biblical decree that does not have a revealed reason (a gezeiras hakasuv ). The Yerushalmi states: “[ Tevilas keilim ] is [required] to re - move the impurities of the Aku”m and to bring the item into the holi - ness of the Jewish people.” 10

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METAL All metals require tevilas keilim with a brocha , including gold, COMBINATIONS USAGE: silver, copper, iron, tin and lead. Any piece of equipment that includes parts of Only equipment used for a meal or ALUMINUM Requires tevila with a metal or glass (if the metal or glass tevila brocha. 11 meal preparation requires with are essential to the use of this equip - a brocha . These include dishes, cut - GLASS (including Pyrex, Duralex, ment and they come in contact with lery and serving utensils and pots, Corelle, crystal and fiberglass) — Re - the food) do require tevila with a pans and ladles. 12 quires tevila with a brocha. brocha . Otherwise, they do not re - Utensils which were not manufac - 15 PLASTIC, NYLON, FORMICA, quire tevila. tured with the intention to use for a MELAMINE AND RUBBER The GLAZED UTENSILS If the vessel is meal, such as a razor knife or scissors, custom is not to require tevila , how - coated with metal or glass, even if can be used temporarily for foodstuff

ú ç à ë å ì å ë å ì é á è î å ’ å ’ ò ñ í ù . 1 5 ä ø å ú ì ó ñ à î á ï é é è ù ð é é ô î ” ø â ä ÷ ñ ô ì ” ð ä ú å ë ú î é â å ñ ’ å ÷ ø ú ” ä î ù à ” é . 1 1 ï å é ë , ø ñ à ð ì ë à î ä ï é à ã é æ î á í ä á ù î ú ù ä é ” ç ð î á å , à ” ÷ ñ ë ” ÷ ’ é ñ ã ” å é á ÷ ò é ú å ò å ù é . 8 ï ð á ø ã î ÷ ø á é é ç í å é ð é î å ì å à å , ä ì é á è á í é á é é ç à ä å . ä ì é á è ø ñ ç ù é ì ë á ä ò é ì á ï é ã í å ù ï é à ä ë ì ä ø å à é á á à á å ä ï ë å å à é á î ã ” î ’ é ñ à ” ç ñ ø ç å ð é é ä ã ) à é ð å ÷ é ì ë ï é ð ò á : ä ò æ ” ò ’ î â á . 1 6 æ ” ç ø æ ò é ì à õ é ö å , 1 1 ’ î ò ’ à ú ø á å ç ä à ø å ä å . å ë é ú ä ì ø ù ô à ù á é é ç ú é ë å ë æ ù ä á é ñ å ú å à î ñ é ð ë ä ù ë å ð é é ä , ã é î ì ë à î ä à é ö å ä ì ê é ø ö ã ú è é ù ï ë ø à á î ù , ø ú å î ä ” ã â ” ë ù ’ é ñ ç ” å à à ” î ø á å à ” ñ í ù ò ” å ù á å ( ú ë ú î á ä ô å ö î ä í é ø á å ñ ù ù é å . á ” ð ’ é ñ á ” ç î ” á å , æ ” ì ’ é ñ . ç ð ’ é ñ ç ” å à á å ã ñ ÷ ’ é ñ á ” ç ã ” å é î ” â à á ï é é ò å ä ì é á è à ì á ú å ð ç ä î å ä ð ÷ í à í ì å à , å î ö ò á å ð é à ä æ ù à é á î í ù é ” ç ð î á í ì å à . é ” á ä ï é ð ò á å , á ” ÷ ñ à ” ø â ä ø å à é á á å í ù ê ” ù á å â ” ç é ” ç ð î ä à é á î ï ë å . ä ë ø á à ì á í ì é á è ä ì ì ò í é ë ø á î ù í é ÷ ñ å ô ä ” ù ä å î ” â à ä ì ë à î ä à é ö å ä ì ê é ø ö ï é à , ï é ì ë å à á ä ñ å ë î ù ë ò ” å ù î ÷ é é ã ì ù é ï ë å . í é ÷ ñ å ô ä ì ë á í ë ñ å î é ì ë ë ì å ç å á á ø å ò î ù ï å é ë è ø æ é å ì â á ä ô å ö î ù ” æ ø ä ø å ä ï ë å , ì é ò å ä ì ã î ì î ä ï ë å , å ” ò ’ é ñ . ñ è é é ä ï å à ø ÷ ÷ ” ÷ ã à ” ã î ä ” ò ï é ÷ ø à å å ã à ì á å ì á å è ì ÷ ñ å ô à ” æ ù ø í ì å à , ä ì é á è ä á ” é ñ å è ” ñ ã ” ô í é ì ë ú ì é á è ø ô ñ á ò ” ò å . ã é î ø î å ì ê é ø ö ï é à å “ ç ” ñ â ” ë ù ’ é ñ ç ” å à æ ” ä ã à ç ” é ÷ ñ í ù ã ” å é ú ” ë ø ã á ’ é ò å . à é î ã ú é ë å ë æ . à ” æ ù ø í ù á í ù ú å ø ò ä á å ï î à é ä í é ì ë ú ì é á è ù í é ø î å à ä é ø á ã ì . í ì é á è ä ì à ì ù â ä ð î ä è ù ô ú ð å . ä ì é á è à ì á í é ø é ú î ù é å . ä ë ø á . à ” î - è ” ì ÷ ñ à ” é ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ò ” ò å , è ” é å ï ë ì å , ” ì ë ä é ø á ã ì á å ù ç ï å ÷ é ú å ä æ ù , ä ø å ú ä à ” á ù ø ä å ù ” à ø ä å , í ù æ ” ò é î ì ù å ø é . 1 0 ÷ ñ å ô ï ë å ä ì é á è ö ” é à ã à é á î á ” ÷ ñ ú ” ô . 1 4 é à ä ’ é ì à ÷ ô ú ñ î ñ ” ù á ú å î å ÷ î ä î ë á . 1 2 ä ì é á è é ã é ì ò ù ï å é ë î ú á ù á å ì á å è ì ø å ñ à à ” é ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ’ é ò ì î à ð à ï é ð ò á å . 1 7 ç ” é ç ù ” å ÷ ì á å . ë ” ä æ â à å ä ù å á ú ë í ” á î ø ä å ä ù ò ð ù ) ú ë ú î ë å à ( ì å ç î ) ñ ø ç ë ú é ë å ë æ í â í ì å à . ù å î é ù ì é å à ø ä é ì ë ì å ä ù å ò à î ù ù ù å ç ù à ” æ ù ø í ù á ï ë à é á î ù å ” ÷ ñ ï é é è ù ð é é ô î ” ø â ä å , ç ’ é ñ á ” ç ã ” å é à ” é á é ä ù è é å å à á å é ì î ø ” å î ã à ÷ ” ë ø à á î ’ á ú å è î ï à ë . à ø î å ç ì í é ÷ ñ å ô ë ” ã á å . ( ä ë ú ä é ” ò ø á ò ù ë ã á ò é ã á ø ú å î æ ” ä ã à ú è é ù ì . é ì ë ì ì è á é å ô é ö ä , 2 0 ’ î ò ’ á ú ø á å ç ä à ø å ä å ä ø å ú ì ó ñ à î á ù ã ç é ì ë ’ é ô à é ø ë ð ä ú å ù ø á à å ä ù é ì ë ì ë ù æ ” ò á é ø é à î á ’ é ò å . ú ë ú î ë å á é ù ç ä ì ø é î ç î ì ò ê å î ñ ì ù é ã á ò é ã á ù ï å é ë î ù î ú ù ä å í å ù î ø é î ç ä ì ù é ù à é á î ù ” ä å ø ò ä í ì å à ú ì å ë é ä å , ø å ñ é à ì ù î ú ù ä ì é ø ë ð ì ú ì å ë é á ù é ø ô ñ à é á î ï ë å , à å ä à î ì ò á à ú å æ ç ã . 1 8 . ç ð ’ é ñ ç ð ì ì ë ê å ø à ä ä ” å à å : å è ú á ù á å í ù , ñ ” ã î ä ì é á è ï é ã ù í é ø á å ñ ù í é ø é ú î ä ä ÷ ã ú é ë å ë æ î è ø é æ å ì â í é î ò ô ì í ä ì ù é ù ê ø ã ä å , ø å ñ é à ú ò é ì á í ò é ì ë ë å ä ù å ò å æ ä à ” æ ù ø í ù á è ” ÷ ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è . ï ð á ø ã î ÷ ø å ø å ñ é à í ì å à . ç ” ñ å ñ í ù ù ” î ë ’ é ñ ï ç ì ù ä ú ø â ñ î á ï ë å , í ì é á è ä ì å â ä ð ï ë ì å ò ” ò å ä ì é á è é ” ò à å ä ø å ñ é à ä ÷ ì ñ ì ã é ç é ä ç ” ø ô ä î à é á î ä ” î ÷ ñ í ù ú ” ë ø ã á . 1 9 . à ” ÷ ñ æ ” ì ï ë å , ä ì é á è ö ” é à ã í é ø á å ñ í é ÷ ñ å ô ä á å ø . 1 3 . ä æ ã å ñ é ô ” ò ú å é â å ñ ä î ë ø à á î ù ê é à í ù í à ’ é ô à ã à î ’ é ñ á ” ç ã ” å é î ” â à á ï é é ò å . 9

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without tevila . Similarly a netilas yadayim cup REFERENCE and a drying rack can be used occasionally with food without tevila , since it was not created for GUIDE food use. Even if the utensil was manufactured for Cut out and save this sheet for easy reference food, if one were to use it only for non-food use, such as a knife being used as a box cutter, it would not require tevila . However, if one were to use the knife sometimes to cut food as well, 19 it would require tevila without a brocha . Toivel with Toivel without Tevila is not required for utensils that aid in a brocha a brocha food processing, yet do not produce a final Metal and glass only * It is preferable to toivel together with a vessel that • Metal cutlery, pots, pot lids, requires a brocha. pans • Crock-pot (only metal • Glazed Porcelain, ceramic and product, such as rolling pins, cookie cutters, and glass insert) china coffee grinder, and sifters. Some have the cus - • Barbeque grill (only the • Enameled iron dishes tom to toivel them without a brocha . If the grill itself) • Food processor (if used for utensil may be used occasionally with finished • Rack and trays of a raw product only) goods, such as a grinder or scraper, one should toaster oven • Nut crackers (some say with a brocha ) toivel without a brocha . However, a utensil • Sheet pans & baking pans • Electric Griddle • Tin cans, metal containers for which is normally used for final processing, storage such as pots, pans, metal grater and glass cut - • Steel knife (even with wooden handle) • Glass containers for storage, ting boards requires tevila with a brocha , even • Grater for finished product • Glass thermos and bottles if one only plans to use it during the early stages • Pizza cutter of food production. 20 • Peeler with metal blade No tevila Only utensils that come in direct contact required with food require tevila . This includes bar - • Corn on the cob holder beque grills, griddles, pot lids, peelers, and the • Ladle, spatula and mixing • All earthenware, stone, wood, utensils leather racks and trays of a toaster oven. However, if • Food processer (at least • Pottery (unless glazed) the utensils are not used directly on the food, metal blade and parts) • Wooden cutting board such as hoods of barbeque grill, blech, burners, • Electric water heater (or • Wooden ladle toaster oven, baking lids and milk pitchers, ask a rov ) • Razor knife, pocket knife or tevila is not required. Some include an egg pot • Popcorn maker (or ask a scissors (unless used 21 rov ) as well. According to many Poskim , can open - permanently with food) • Crystal Pitcher ers and corkscrews do not require tevila. Al - • Netilas Yadayim cup • Glass cutting boards though it sometimes comes in contact with the • Drying rack • Pyrex baking dishes food, it is not intentional. According to some • Milk bag pitcher (common in Poskim , nut crackers should be toiveled without • Tin or glass salt shaker Israel) • Metal or glass dishes for • Can opener and cork screw both storage and serving • Knife sharpener à ì í é ã é ô ÷ î ù ï å é ë ä ì é á è ö ” é à ä è é ç ù ì ù ò ” ò å . ä ã å ò ñ é ë ø ö ì ã ò å é î å ð é à ù é ì ë ï é ð ò á ÷ ì å ç æ ” è ä í ì å à . ø ç à ø á ã ì í ä á ù î ú ù ä ì ä ã å ò ñ ì é å à ø ä é ì ë ï é ð ò á å . å ÷ ’ é ñ ã ” é ç ð ” á à á • Stove grates, burners, blech å ì á å è ì í é ì æ ø á á í â ø é î ç î à ” î ø ä ù ø á å ñ å ø á å ñ ç ” ø ô ä , ú å ù î ú ù ä ä ø ç à å á í é ë ì å ä ù ø é î ç ä æ ” ô ò å . í ù ä ” å à ä ô ” ò ä ë ø á à ì á í à ’ é ô à å å ù é î ù ú á å ø ø ç à í é ë ì å ä ù Tevila is in • Ovens (and oven racks ñ ” ú ç ä å é ç ù é à ï á ä å ( ú ” ø ô ä å ) ç ” ø ô ä á é é ç å ð é à í é ì ë å à ì í é î ò ô ì ï é ë ñ á ù î ú ù ú question unless they come in direct à ” é ô á å , â ” ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ò ” ò å . ä ” ÷ ñ ø á å ñ å ÷ ì å ç à ” é ÷ ñ ú ” ø ô ä í ì å à . ä ì é á è á contact with food) , ç ” é ÷ ñ , è ” ö ñ , â ” ö ñ , á ” ò ñ , ç ” ñ ñ , å ” ë ñ à ” î ø á ä ” ë å å ù é î ù ú á å ø ø ç à í é ë ì å ä ï é à ù . æ ” ô ÷ ñ å æ ” ð ÷ ñ í ì å à , ä ë ø á á å ì á å è ì ù é à ” î ø ä ô ” ò å , ç ” ñ • Plastic, nylon, Formica, • Electric hot plate (unless å ò é ø ë ä à î - î ’ é ñ ù ” ä å ø ò ä å á ” ð ’ ò ñ ö ” á æ ä é ” ÷ ñ ú ” ë ø ã á ’ é ò å ë ” å ð á å ã ” ñ í ù ò ” å ù á . 2 1 melamine, rubber food is placed on it directly) å ì á å è ì å à ä ë ø á á á é é ç ä ø ç à é ì ë í ò å ì á å è ì í ù á à é á î æ ” ÷ ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á å ç ” ì ÷ ñ å . á ” ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ë ” ë å . ä ë ø á à ì á • Disposable aluminum (2nd use) ï å â ë ú é ÷ ù á ã é î ú å ù é î ù ú ù ì ë ù à ” æ ù ø • Induction cooker ê ø è ö î à ì å , ÷ ñ ô ä ú é ÷ ù ä á é ù ç á ì ç ã ë á ä è é ç ù ì ù ï é ë ñ é á â ì ä ” ñ í ù ò ” å ù á . 2 0 • Toaster • Lid of baking dish and ø é é ð ï å â ë é ò ø à å ù é î ù ú í à í ì å à . ä ì é á è é á â ì å , ” ä ë ø á à ì á å ì á å è ì á å è å “ à ” î ø ä ÷ ñ ô å ð î î ì æ å ð í é î ò ô ì ù ä å ò ù ø é é ð å à í å é ð å î å ì à ÷ ñ ô ú å ö î ä ú à í ä á í é ð ÷ ú î ù í é ì æ ø á • Electrical equipment barbeque hood . ä ì é á è á é é ç å ÷ ñ ô ä á å ù ç ø é é ð ä ï é à é ì ë ì ï é ë ñ é ð à ù ã ê ” ù ä ò é ø ë ä å , ä ì é á è ö ” é à ã • Glass microwave tray (unless ú ì é á è ø ô ñ á ’ é ò í é ö é á ì å ù é á ì é ì ë ï é ð ò á å . ä ã å ò ñ ì ï ë å î ä ø á ã å á ù î ú ù ä ì ø ù ô à ù • Large equipment food is placed on it directly) å ì á å è ì ù é ù à ” æ ù ø í ù á é ” ÷ ñ à ” é ô í é ì ë í é ø ô å ú ù í é è ç î á í â å å ì à ë í é ì æ ø á á í ì å à • Rolling pins, cookie cutters ä ö é á í é à é á î í é î ò ô ì ù ï å é ë ä ë ø á à ì á á ú ë æ ” ô ò å . ä ì é á è ö ” é à ú å ô å ò ä ú à í ä á • Motor for electrical . ä ã å ò ñ ì ä ú ô é ì ÷ í ò ä î é ì ù í é ð é ë ñ å ð é î é á ù á ÷ ó ã á ” ç ã ” å é é ” ø ä è ø ô ñ á • Metal flour sifter appliances • Egg pot • Equipment manufactured • Coffee Grinder and owned by a Jew a brocha , while some require toiveling with a brocha. 22 Sheet pans and baking pans require tevila , although they are only used with a liner or foil. Equipment which is used to store food, such as cans, containers, thermos, and glass bottles LAWS & require tevila without a brocha . If it occasion - ally is used for serving as well, like a pitcher, one BLESSINGS should say a brocha. 23 How-to Toivel When purchasing a vessel

Disposable aluminum pans do not require tevila since they are not considered keilim . Even if one were to use it a few times, it is still not a permanent keili since it was designed for one-time use and is not durable. Some are more stringent and toivel the pans if they will ☛ be used more than once, especially if the alu - Before toiveling equipment one must en - minum is made of thicker, less flimsy material. 24 sure that it is clean from any dirt, rust or com - Large equipment maybe harder to toivel , but pany stickers, unless it is a tag that adds value is not exempt from tevila altogether. There are to the equipment (such as a prestigious com - instances in halacha when some large equip - pany, brand or country sticker). ment could be sold to a non-Jew who would then allow the Jew to borrow it for use. Usually, this is considered a loophole, but in some in - ☛ Care must be taken that water reaches all stances, such as a very large utensil, it may be sides of the vessel at once, and that no air is allowed. 25 An oven built into the ground is not trapped in the vessel. a keili , so no tevila is necessary. Similarly large equipment which is not moveable, such as large ovens and fryers, do not required tevila . The ☛ Only a mikvah which is kosher for tevilas same applies to utensils dedicated for this nashim or a designated keilim mikvah may be equipment. used for utensils. Electrical equipment that comes into direct contact with food requires tevila – for example, if one has an electric water urn, electric hot Before immersion one holds the vessel and plate or popcorn maker, one needs to toivel at says the following blessing: least the parts (if they come apart) of the equip - ment that touches the food. The wire does not Ub¨J§S¦e rJ£t 'oŠI¨ Q†n Ub¥e O ¡t  ¨T©t QUrŠC /o   Ubœ²Um±u 'u¨Im¦nC ø ú å é å á ù î ú ù î í à ø é î ç ä ì í é ö å ø ù ù é å å - ä ” ÷ ÷ ñ å ã ” ë ÷ ñ à ” é ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á . 2 2 For one vessel the brocha is: ú ç à í ò ô î à å ä ù å î ë í é à é á î í à é å ì ú ù à ” æ ù ø î à é á î ä à ñ ’ î î ì å ã â é ì ë á ï é ã ä à å ä ã à ” é å . 2 5 í à å , ä ë ø á á í ì é á è î ï ç ì ù ì í ú ô é ì ÷ í ò /   ///  ¨T©t QUrŠC ä á å â ú å î à ’ â í å ø á ä î à ì ò ä î à å ð é é ä ã . ä ë ø á à ì á å à ì ï é á ú ÷ å ì ç î á é å ð ù å ð ì ù ú å ã é î á ä æ ø å ò é ù å ) ç ” ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á å å ” ÷ ñ ú ” ë ø ã á . 2 3 æ ” ë á ’ é ò å , ( î ” ë à å à ” å æ ç ä å ä à ð ç ” ø â ä ’ ø í ì å à . à ” æ ù ø ô ” ò â ” é ÷ ñ å æ ” è ñ à ” é ô å é ” ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á å ä ” ÷ ñ í ù ú ” ë ø ã á . ä ì é á è à ì á ú é ë å ë æ ø é ú î ï à î é ð é é ä ä ù î é ì ë á ø é ú î á ” ë ’ é ñ á ” ç é à ú é ì ú ã ” å è å è ä ã ò â å ð í é î ò ô ì ì ë å à ä ù ø ø ÷ î ä ú å ø é â î ï é ð ò á å ☛ One then proceeds to dip the vessel once in à ” ò ø å , é ì ë á å ù ç å ð é à ù ä à ñ ’ î ÷ é æ ç î ä ú ì é á è ä ’ é ò , í ì é á è ä ì à ì ù å â ä ð î ” î å í ä á å ñ ’ é ñ ä ” å à ø ò ù à ” ð é á á å â ” ä ð ë ä í ù á å î ë ù à ” æ ù ø ø à é á ù ç ” ÷ ñ à ” é ô í é ì ë the mikva water. There are different minhagim í é ù ô ç î í é ÷ ñ å ô ä î ë å à ” ð é á ä å . æ ” ò ÷ ì å ç ù ú å ø é â î ä ê ë , é ì ë á å ù ç å ð é à å î ö ò ø ø ÷ î ä ù å â ä ð à ì í ì å ò ä ä î ì ú å ë æ ã î ì ì í é ø é ú ä . ä é ì à í é ì è á regarding the number of times the vessel ’ é ñ ä ø ä è é ì å ã é â ø ô ñ á . í é ì å ã â í é ì ë ì å á è ì should be immersed. Consult your rabbi if you ’ é ò å . ò ÷ ø ÷ á ò å á ÷ é ì ë ø é ú ä ì à é á î æ ” é é ” ÷ ì ç á å à ú å à á ì ’ é ñ ä ” ç é ” ç ð î ú ” å ù á . 2 4 ï é ð ò á å . æ ” è ÷ ñ à ” ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ä ë å ø à á ã ç å á å ù å î é ù ù é ì ë ø é ú î å è ÷ ’ é ñ â ” ç do not know your family minhag . ã å ã ï é ð ò á å , é ” ñ à ” é ô ë ” ì á è á ’ é ò ø ø ÷ î é ô ã î ä à ø å ä å ä ø å ú ì ó ñ à î á ô ” î ø â ä å . é î ò ô ú ë ú î î ï ç ì ù ï é ð ò á å , å ” ì ñ í ù í é î ç í é î ä î ë å á ù î ú ù ä ì ø é ú î 4 0 ’ î ò ’ á ú ø á å ç . á ” ø ñ í ù . ò å á ÷ é ì ë ì é ì ë ä ú à ä ù å ò à ì ä æ ù , í é î ò ô

14 www.OK.org need to be toiveled . (Some poskim of the manufacturing company is Are they stationary or connected to hold that the wire should be toiveled.) Jewish, and no tevila is required un - the ground? It is preferable to wait a few days until less one finds out that the company is Do they come into contact with the the appliance is completely dry after owned by a non-Jew. 29 Some Poskim food directly? it was toiveled before using. If one is are of the opinion that in the USA concerned that it may get ruined, one one should not recite a brocha on At which stage in the production should discuss this matter with a tevilas keilim unless one knows defin - process do they come into contact rov. 26 Some say that a toaster oven itively that the item belonged to a with the food? does not require tevila since it is used non-Jew. Most poskim disagree, and There is an additional factor to one should try to find out if it ever belonged to a non-Jew...

for bread which is edible before en - hold that one should make a brocha consider: are these utensils solely tering the toaster, but most Poskim unless he knows that it was never used for business purposes and not disagree. 27 owned by a non-Jew. When purchas - for personal use? Some Poskim are of Equipment that can be disassem - ing a vessel one should try to find out the opinion that the food produced in bled does not need to be taken apart if it ever belonged to a non-Jew. industrial manufacturing plants is not before tevila . It can be toiveled either If one sends equipment to a non- for personal use, only for business whole or apart, but a closed Thermos Jewish handyman to repair, it does purposes, so the equipment used are (or other item with a lid) needs to be not require tevila once the equip - not called “ Keili Seudah ” and does opened before tevila . ment is returned, 30 unless the metal not require tevila . used for repair belonged to the non- There is much debate about when OWNERSHIP: Jew and the equipment could not this can be applied. 31 A relevant prac - function without the repair. There - tical application of this question is as The mitzvah of tevilas keilim ap - fore, if one were to send a knife to a follows: If one were to purchase a plies to the equipment that was pre - non-Jewish sharpener, the newly candy dish made from metal or glass viously owned by a non-Jew, or even sharpened knife would not require from a store with a hashgocha , one by a partnership between a Jew and a tevila . The same would apply if one should find out if the hashgocha re - non-Jew. Even if a Jew built the sent sheet pans to be reglazed. quired the store to toivel the dishes equipment, tevila is required if it be - before selling them and if the store longed to a non-Jew. 28 Yet when one owner actually toivels them. sells chometz to a non-Jew before Pe - INDUSTRIAL: If not, one can still purchase the sach through his rav , one is not re - candy dish and use it until the candy When dealing with industrial facil - quired to toivel the vessels after is finished. At that point, one is re - ities and the industrial size equip - Pesach . quired to toivel the dish before it is ment, there are a number of factors In the Diaspora, most manufactur - reused. to consider when a Rov Hamachshir ing companies are owned by non- Unfortunately this article cannot determines if tevilas keilim is re - Jews, or have a non-Jew as a partner. cover all the intricate details related quired: Therefore, if one is unsure about the to the halachos of Tevilas Keilim . ownership of a company, it must be How large are the keilim ? There are often differences of opin - assumed to be owned by a non-Jew ions in some scenarios. When in What materials are they made from? and tevila with a brocha is required. doubt one should consult with a rab - In Israel, it is assumed that the owner Are they electrical? binic authority.

à ” é á é ú ” å ù á ë ” ë å . ä ë ø á à ì á í ì á è é ô ” ä ë ì å ø å ë î ì à ì í é ø é î ç î ù é å . ú å é â å ñ ä î ë ä æ á í â ä å . ç ñ ô ä ø ç à ä ø æ ç å ä ð å ÷ ë ” ç à å , é ø ë ð ì 1 1 ’ î ò ’ à ú ø á å ç ä ” å å ú ì ó ñ à î õ á å ÷ á . 2 7 ï å é ë î , ì î ù ç á ì é ÷ î á ÷ ò é ú ÷ ì ç ä . 2 6 ’ é ò å . ú é ë å ë æ á í â ê ø á ì ÷ ñ ô á é ’ é ñ ã ” å é ç é ” ç . í î ö ò í é ì ë ø é ë ù ä ì ê é ø ö ÷ ø å î ö ò é ì ë ä ø å ë î ì ö ” é à ù é å à ø ì ë å à ä ù ë é ì ë ú ì é á è á ô ” î ø â ä ï ã ä å ä , ò ÷ ù ì å ú ñ ð ë ä é ì á ù î ú ù ä ì à ” à ù à å ä ï ë å ä ø é ë î é ø è ù ä á ø ä á í ì å à , å î å ÷ î é ì ë á á é é ç ã ÷ é ñ î å , ä æ é ì ë à ì á ä ì é ë à ì á å ø å . é ì ë á å ù ç à ì å ò ÷ ø ÷ ì ø á å ç î å î ë à ì å ê ø á ì ú å è é ù ä å ” ÷ ñ á ” ô ë ” ì á è á ä æ á ì ÷ ä ì ú å ë ø á ÷ ô ñ ï ð é ø î à à ì ì ” å ç á ã . 2 9 ï ë å “ ì ì ë ù à é ð ú ä ì ò á æ ” ä ã à ï ÷ é ú ù ø è ù á ù ù ç í å ÷ î á å , ( ø ö å à é ì ë å î ë ) ú å ë ú î ’ é ñ ã ” å é ä ” ù á ’ é ò å . å ä å î ë é ø á ñ à ì í é ÷ ñ å ô ä ä ø å ú é ì ä à í é ø å à é á å ú å ø ò ä á ò ” ò å . ê ø á ì ä å ä æ à ù , á å ø à ì å ì å ÷ ù ä ÷ ô ñ ä å ä ë ” à à ø à é á å . ” ï é ò á õ î ç í ä é ì ò ù é ù í é ö å î ç í é ì ë ’ ÷ ’ é ñ ã ” ç î ” á ú ” å ù á å . ø é ú ä ì ù é ì å ÷ ì é ÷ ’ é ñ à ” ç ã ” å é î ” â à á å á ” ò ñ á ” ç é ” ç ð î á å æ ” ð . ä æ á ï é ÷ ñ ø . é . ì á ø ä î 9 9 9 õ á å ÷ ä ö ç î ë ò å á ÷ ì ë ï ð é ø î à à ì å . í é ø ë ð é à ã å ë é è å ÷ ì á ù è é å å à á å é ì î ø ” å î ã à ÷ ” ë ä æ á . ä ì é á è ê é ø ö ã ÷ ñ ô à ” ð ñ à ” é ô ë ” ì á è ø ô ñ á ä ë å ø à á ’ é ò å æ ” ð á ” ç ã ” å é î ” â à á ’ é ò å . ã ” å ã é ð á ä ö ç î ì ò é ì ë ç á ù á ä ð å ÷ ï î å à ã ç ” é å . 3 0 ä ì é á è á å é ç ï é à ù å ” ì ù ú î ” å è î ú å ç é ù . ä ì é á è ì é ì î ù ç é ì ë ï ÷ ú ì ê é à ú å ö ò ä î ë á ú å ë ú î é ì ë é á â ì â ù ’ î ò â ” ç ç ” å à á å î ” é ñ å ñ í é ì ë á ù î ú ù é é ø ë ð ä ù ç é ë ù ï é à ù ï ô å à á é ø ë ð ì å é ì ë ø ë å î ä ï ë ì å à ” ñ í ù ò ” å ù . 2 8 æ ” ð ’ é ñ à ” ç ã ” å é î ” ø â à ä é ì î ù ç è å ç ï é ð ò á å ä á å ù ú ø ô å ñ è á ù ä ú á å ù ú ô ” ò ã ñ å é î . 3 1 ’ é ô à å ï ô é , ï é ñ î à á å é î ù é ì ë á è ø ô á å ê ø á ì í ” å ë ò ú à î å è í å ù î ä å ä ä ì é á è ù ï å é ë î å ì à ä ù ÷ ë ” à å , ä ì é á è á é é ç ä ø æ ç á í ú å à ä ð å ÷ ä å ø é î ç î í ù é ” ç ð î ä å . å ì á å è ì à ì ì é ÷ î . æ ” ñ , ì ÷ ä ì ã ã ö î ú é ë å ë æ é ì ë á í ì å à , ô à ø å é î ø à é á ù ê é à ú å ë é ø à á ù ” ò å , ä ì é á è á å é ç ë ” é à ä ð ù ì ë í ö î ç í é ø ë å î ì à ø ù é ì ì ë ê é à . . ë ” â å ì á å è ì

www.Kosherspirit.com 15 of Mem Slice ories A Boston Fruit Slices

t is synonymous with Passover treats, an and unique flavors. Boston Fruit iconic Jewish dessert known to all — Slices’ product is superior to other I brands for several different reasons: chewy, colorful, candy fruit slices. For over the fruit-juice flavor, the gelling agent seventy years, Boston Fruit Slices has pro - (agar as opposed to pectin), and the duced the sweet treat. Years ago, Passover egg-white fluff for the fruit slice rind. treats were rare and we did not have the so - The slices are tossed in piles of sugar phisticated kosher for Passover treats that you and packaged in a rainbow pattern in can find in the stores today. every box. Boston Fruit Slices is inspected Boston Fruit Slices is a small com - then, Boston Fruit Slices has kept the year round by local, Boston-bred, pany, with a few dozen employees, same recipe for three decades. Cur - mashgiach , Rabbi Yaakov Blotner, founded by Vincent Aliberti. Aliberti rent owners, John Morrissey, and who enjoys a warm relationship with bought the fruit slice line from H.W. Rick Hiera work together to bring the the company. “Located just down the Powers Candy Co., another Boston delectable treat to homes nationwide. street from where I was born, Boston company, in 1984. Powers Candy was While there are competitors, Fruit Slices provides a kind of home - the first company to produce fruit Boston Fruit Slices is the best known coming experience for me. During slices in the United States. Although brand. Different varieties include my many years of supervision there, ownership has changed twice since mini slices, chocolate-covered slices, I have found the management fo -

16 www.OK.org cused on kashrus concerns with the final inspections right before closing and immediately cooled. Next, the same enthusiasm they apply to the time and I noticed that the two cool - flavor and color is added to the mix quality of their product. Whether it is ing tanks still had some sugary and the thick syrup is poured on a regular ingredient discussion, or the residue. When I pointed this out to waxed paper. Then, the mixture that complicated transition from Year Rick and his son Mike, they agreed to makes the rind is poured on top. Round to Passover production, they stay together with the manager to More syrup is poured into wedge do a thorough, competent job and guarantee the machines would be shaped molds, which are later put hold kosher in high esteem.” through a slicing machine. The slices are available Once the wedges are sliced, year-round, but Passover is they are tossed into vats of the busiest season for sugar to coat each slice. Fi - Boston Fruit Slices. “It’s a de - nally, the slices are dried be - cent part of our business,” fore being packed. Hiera says. “The sales always “Boston Fruit Slices According to Rabbinic stay steady.” Transitioning to is committed to Coordinator Rabbi Yitzchak Passover production comes Hanoka, “Boston Fruit Slices with its own challenges and selling kosher is an old-time company with regulations. The entire fac - candies, especially traditional, time tested pro - tory must be kosherized for duction methods. They Passover and the entire pro - during Passover. excel in their unique niche duction is supervised by an Our fruit slices are and always show respect for ~ rabbi who comes specifi - kashrus and ~ policies. cally to oversee the Passover a traditional item Communication with Rick production. In addition to during Passover and his team is smooth and koshering, ingredients must he is a pleasure to work be substituted to comply going back nearly with.” with Passover restrictions. 60 years...” Approximately 5,000 Corn syrup must be re - pounds of fruit slices are placed with tapioca or po - produced each day of oper - tato syrup and the number ation! The slices are packed of flavor varieties is cut in bulk packages for whole - down from 13 to four – sale clubs, and smaller pack - cherry, orange, lemon and ages for grocery stores and lime. specialty shops. Rabbi Zalman Borenstein, General Manager, Rick the ~’s Passover mashgiach Hiera, places kosher high on sees firsthand the company’s his list of priorities. “Boston commitment to high kosher Fruit Slices is committed to standards, especially for the selling kosher candies, espe - complex Passover restric - cially during Passover. Our tions. “Boston Fruit Slices is fruit slices are a traditional a pleasure to work for. They item during Passover going treat kashrus with respect back nearly 60 years. Work - and we have enjoyed a close ing with a nationally recog - working relationship for many years. cleaned according to Passover re - nized rabbinical service like the ~ To prepare for the Pesach run, the quirements. This cleaning took them offers our customers the confidence employees at Boston Fruit Slices several hours past closing time, and that our fruit slices and other can - worked extensively to clean the fac - this was after a long hard day of dies meet the highest kosher stan - tory of all the year-round sugars. It is koshering.” dards.” especially difficult in a company like The sweet confections have a Enjoy your Boston Fruit Slices this this since the sugars tend to stick to unique production process. First the Passover with the confidence that they the machines. Once I was doing my sugar and gelling mixture is boiled are kosher without compromise .

www.Kosherspirit.com 17 DID YOU KNOW... River Facts As part of the Exodus from Egypt B’nei Yisroel walked through the sea to safety. Here are some facts about the earth’s bodies of water…

• The longest river on our planet is the Nile …it flows through 11 countries, beginning in Lake Victoria and winding about 4,160 miles until it empties.

• The Amazon River is shorter than the Nile but is known as the largest because it carries the most water.

• Some say the Roe River , near Great Falls, Montana, is the shortest river in the world (200 feet). Others say it’s the D River in Oregon, which is sometimes Gnocchi with only 120 feet long depending on the tide. Beef Cheek Sauce

• Angel Falls in Venezuela (pictured) is Gnocchi is a light, versatile, potato- the tallest waterfall, with a height of based pasta or dumpling. Attempts to make it kosher for Passover proved 3,200 feet. challenging because simply substituting potato starch for the flour • The deepest part of the world’s oceans resulted in a gummy texture. The trick is the Mariana Trench , located in the to achieving a light kosher for Passover Pacific Ocean, which reaches a gnocchi is decreasing the amount of potato starch and beating the egg maximum known depth of 6.8 miles. white until frothy. • The Pacific Ocean is the largest body There are two types of gnocchi: one that is dough-like and can be rolled out of water, covering 1/3 of our like pasta, and one that is more delicate planet. and is portioned out using a piping bag. A potato ricer is an inexpensive • The Yam HaMelach is kitchen tool that ‘mashes’ the potato the lowest and saltiest while keeping it fluffy and starchy. body of water at 1,340 feet Tip: It is important to rice the potatoes below sea level. and make the gnocchi while the potatoes are still hot.

Recipe submitted by Joy of Kosher Magazine. Subscribe or Give the Gift of Joy of Kosher at www.joyofkosher.com/subscribe. Download their new iPad app on the App Store. 18 www.OK.org PESACH RECIPE

Basic Potato Gnocchi: Beef Cheek Sauce: 2-3 large russet 6-8 tablespoons 1 pound beef cheek In a medium saucepan (3 or 4 quart), heat oil on potatoes potato starch 2 tablespoons olive oil medium-high heat. Once oil is hot, add meat and cook 1 egg white for about three minutes per side or until meat develops 1 Spanish onion, finely chopped a brown sear. Remove meat from pan and lower heat to Preheat oven to 375°F. Pierce the potatoes all low-medium. over with a fork. Place potatoes on baking 1 large carrot, sheet and bake uncovered for about 45-60 finely chopped Add onions and cook for ten minutes, until onions are minutes, until potato is fully baked. Using an 2 celery ribs, translucent. Add the carrots, celery, and garlic and cook immersion blender, regular blender or finely chopped for another ten minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook for standing mixer, beat egg white until it 2 cloves garlic, minced five minutes. Add the ½ cup of wine, raise heat and simmer for five minutes. Add the reserved beef cheek quadruples in size and becomes white and 1 large tomato frothy. Set aside. (about 1 cup chopped) meat and enough chicken stock to just about cover the meat. Lower heat to the lowest possible, and cover pot. While still hot, peel potato and mash using a ½ cup good-quality red wine Cook for 2 hours until beef cheek is tender. Let sauce potato ricer or masher. Add the potato cool. Remove beef cheek and shred the meat. starch to the potatoes and mix until 1½ - 2 cups chicken combined. Add the egg whites and mix until stock When ready to serve, heat a frying pan on medium heat just combined. Divide ‘dough’ into two; roll and add 1 tablespoon oil. Add the shredded meat and Note: You can omit the out and slice into 1½ inch pieces. Bring a cook for three minutes until meat gets golden brown. garlic if you do not use Pour reserved sauce and cook for two minutes. Add the large pot of water to a boil and cook gnocchi garlic on Pesach . until they float to the top. Remove from gnocchi and cook for three minutes on medium heat. boiling water and add to desired sauce. Serve immediately.

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Interview with Rabbi Avraham Rapoport Rabbi Avra ham Rapoport

KS: Where did you grow up? Where did you KS: What is best thing about working at go to yeshiva? the ~? RAR: I was born in Liverpool, England, and grew up in RAR: The ~ is an organization that teaches you the Geula neighborhood in Yerushalayim. I went to the every day that size doesn’t have to come at the expense Knesset Hizkiyahu Yeshiva and later to Ateret Yisrael. of quality. Rabbi Levy keeps our standards high; we al - ways marvel at how easy it is for him to give up a proj - KS: What did you do after yeshiva? ect or a plant because they can’t quite measure up to RAR: I got married and then learned in kollel for a few his kosher expectations. His committed leadership, his years, and then went on to work as a tutor and mentor vast experience, and, of course, his siyata d’shmaya , in Netiva HaTorah Yeshiva. Later I became a maggid makes the ~ such a respected kashrus agency. shiur in Lev Arye yeshiva in Jerusalem. The best thing about working in the Israeli office is KS: What is your current position at the ~? working under Rabbi Aharon Haskel, who somehow RAR: I head the ~ India department and I am also in manages to let the rabbinic coordinators run their de - charge of new accounts for ~ Israel. partments independently, while still staying involved and aware of every detail. He is like the angel who KS: What prepared you the most for your commands the plant to grow, and we constantly take current position at the ~? advantage of the way he makes himself and his knowl - RAR: Since my marriage, even while working in other edge available to us when we need advice and guid - fields, I worked from time to time as a mashgiach for var - ance. ious Israeli kosher agencies. Of course, I started by su - pervising simple productions, which didn’t require much KS: How would you describe the ~ today? experience. With time, I learned a lot, accumulated ex - RAR: The ~ is probably the most technologically perience, and started dealing with more complex proj - advanced kosher agency in the world, something that ects. Later, I started going to visit production sites affects both the kashrus level and the customer service abroad. When I began working for the ~ I was already level. We are definitely the biggest mehadrin kosher an experienced mashgiach , with good knowledge of the agency in the world, and we are here so more Jews will kosher food industry. have access to more food which is strictly kosher.

20 www.OK.org “Avi, as he is fondly called,

excels in his endeavors to

literally bring kashrus worldwide. ” – Rabbi Don Yoel Levy “ Kashrus Administrator What Other People Say Ab“out Rabbi Avraham Rapoport

ombining the energy of youth and the “Cmeticulousness of a well-seasoned rabbinic coordinator, avi, as he is fondly called, excels in his endeavors to literally KS: Can you share an interesting bring kashrus worldwide. his enthusiasm experience that you had while working at and Ahavas Yisroel give away his chabad the ~? ancestry. rabbi rapoport works exactly RAR: One of the hardest things to explain to facto - according to ~ guidelines, which ensures ries is the issue of “ blia’a bekelim ” – why equipment his success in his quest to spread kashrus. we are fortunate to have avi with us as might be non-kosher even after cleaning. When I first the ~ and it would not be the same with- came to India, one of the factories invited me for lunch out him.” with the senior staff and the owners. I started explain - ing that unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to eat the food Rabbi Don Yoel Levy served, but I would be happy to sit down with them Kashrus Administrator and eat my own food. The owner couldn’t agree; he oport is a rare combination told me that they belong to a religion which demands abbi rap “Rof a talmid chacham, an exemplary a vegetarian diet, so actually all the food is kosher. I ex - mentsch, and a highly intelligent profes- plained that “kosher” is a more complex description sional with profound knowledge of the than “vegetarian”. I offered him a piece of a cake I food industry. we are very proud to have a brought along and he refused outright, explaining that man of his level at the ~. his dedication he must not eat things without being certain about the to kosher work is absolute: he works ingredients. Of course that was all I needed to explain closely with people in very different time e – so that it is best if everyone keeps to their own food… zones – india and the us for instanc for him this is really a 24/6 job. i always We had a very interesting conversation over that get enthusiastic feedback about rabbi meal, and it turned out that their religion also has a rapoport – not only from our clients but “blia’a bekelim ” prohibition – a dish in which meat was even from other kosher agencies, which cooked, for example, is forbidden for use – forever. hold him in a very high esteem.” Since then, I use this story often when visiting plants in India, and I find it very effective in clarifying this Rabbi Aharon Haskel ael kosher issue. Director of ~ Isr

www.Kosherspirit.com 21 CHASSIDIC INSIGHTS

Pesach Sheini Compiled by Dina Fraenkel esach Sheini represents the second chance, always awaiting Moshiach ’s arrival and Pavailable to every Jew, to reach one’s spiri - the rebuilding of the Beis HaMikdash . If the Beis HaMikdash is rebuilt during tual goals. The year after the Exodus from the time between Pesach and Pesach Egypt, the Jewish people were commanded to Sheini , we will have to bring the Pe - bring a Pesach offering on the 14 th of Nissan . sach offering on Pesach Sheini .6 The mitzvah of awaiting Moshiach ’s arrival The sacrifice was incumbent on every male, obligates all of us to prepare for Pesach but some were not ritually pure and, therefore, Sheini immediately after Pesach. were unable to bring the sacrifice. This is a parallel for our personal Divine service. Hashem com - “There were some men who were on a journey) failed to offer the Pesach manded: “They shall make a Sanctuary ritually unclean from contact with the sacrifice and was subject to the pun - for Me and I will dwell within them dead, and were unable to prepare the ishment of kareis (spiritual excision of [within each and every Jew 7].” 8 The Pesach offering on that day; and they the soul) did teshuva and offered the cheilik Eloka mi’ma’al inside every Jew came before Moshe and Aharon that sacrifice on Pesach Sheini he would be can never be destroyed and today, same day. Those men said to him: ‘We forgiven. 3 This is the power of Pesach when the Beis HaMikdash is unfortu - are ritually unclean from contact with Sheini . nately not in our midst, we still per - the dead. Why should we be deprived Although we no longer have the form all of the proscribed rituals of bringing the offering of Hashem at Beis HaMikdash in our midst, the con - through our tefillah and observance of its appointed time among the Chil - cept of Pesach Sheini applies to all Jews mitzvos . Just as some men were not dren of Israel?’ Moshe said to them: in all times and we observe it by eating able to make the Pesach offering on ‘Stand by, and I will hear what Hashem a kezayis of matzah on Pesach Sheini . the 14 th of Nissan , sometimes each of will command concerning you.’ G-d A Jew, who is far from Torah and us fails to perform a mitzvah or serve spoke to Moshe… ‘If any person of you mitzvos , even if he has intentionally Hashem to the best of our ability, ei - or your future generations shall be rit - strayed from the path of his parents, ther intentionally or accidentally. Just ually unclean from contact with the can always return to Hashem and to as Hashem is infinite and without con - dead, or be on a distant journey, he his real essence. 4 No omission in one’s straint, so is the Divine service of a shall still make the Passover-offering service to Hashem cannot be rectified; Jew. We can always reach a higher to the L-rd. He shall make it on the no sin cannot be repented. A Jewish level; there are always new levels of 14 th day of the second month [Iyar]…’” 1 neshama remains a cheilek Eloka mi’ - service that we can strive for. There - As the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, ma’al mamash (an actual spark of fore, Pesach Sheini is applicable to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, ex - Hashem ), no matter how far it falls every Jew, every day, every year. There plained, “The idea of Pesach Sheni is from Torah observance. 5 is always a need, and an opportunity, that nothing is irretrievable; we can al - For a Jew who observed Pesach for a second chance in our Divine ways rectify our behavior. Even one properly the first time, Pesach Sheini service, either to rectify an omission, who was ritually unclean or who was seems unnecessary. Why does a Jew on a distant journey – even willingly – who brought the Pesach offering need can still rehabilitate himself.” 2 The to mark Pesach Sheini ? B’nei Yisroel is Rambam writes that even a Jew who intentionally (i.e. was tahor and not

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ר̇אשׁ, .or to increase the level of our service “Pesach means ‘leaping over’ and Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim , which ְ כּרָעיו ִוְָקרבּוֹ , is cognate to the word meitzorim which means limits. A person’s charac - —Parshas Bo 12:9 ter, his upbringing and mode of life, in - deed nature itself, act as constraints on hy did the Korbon his cleaving to G-d with unbounded Pesach need to be enthusiasm, preventing a person from Wroasted in this climbing higher in Divine worship. The particular way, the head, legs exodus from Egypt in spiritual terms and stomach together? What means a Jew must leap out of the limits can we learn from this of his previous level of service and today? enter a hitherto inaccessible plane of Chassidus explains: in sanctity….His observance of Pesach , al - general, there are three though complete at the time, has now things that can cause become inadequate. He becomes obli - obstacles in a person’s 9 gated to observe Pesach Sheini .” relationship with Hashem . May we all jump to take our “second His head (knowledge) — if he doesn’t understand things, his chance” and increase the level of our feet (desire) — if he is willing to step on anything (people, own observance, bringing more Divine principles, Torah) to get what he wants, and his stomach sparks into the world and adding the (satisfaction) — his internal desire to fill his hunger at any final brick to the Beis HaMikdash cost. The lesson of the Korbon Pesach is that, even today, these HaShlishi , ushering in the Final Re - three qualities must be brought as an offering to Hashem . demption bimheira v’yameinu . Similarly, it says a person’s essence can be defined through three things: B’kiso , b’koso , u’v’kaaso (his wallet, his drink, and 1. Bamidbar 9:6-11. his anger) – how a person spends his money, how he behaves 2. HaYom Yom 14 Iyar . when he is drunk, and how he acts in anger. These three things 3. Rambam, Hilchos Korbon Pesach 5:2. are actually the same as the three qualities mentioned above. 4. See Likkutei Torah, Parshas Ha’azinu , p. 142. The wallet (which enables you to get what you want) = feet, Days of Destiny, Teshuvah, Tefillah, Tzedakah , p. 9ff. drink = food, and head = anger. 5. Tanya , ch. 2. 6. According to most opinions. See Minchas Chinuch , Mitzvah 380. 7. See Reishis Chochmah, Shaar HaAhavoh , ch. 6; Shaloh, Shaar HaOsiyos, Os 30; Likkutei Torah, Parshas Nasso . THE THREE NAMES FOR 8. Shemos 25:8. THE YOM TOV 9. Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XII, pp. 216-220 Shabbos Parshas Emor, 5738. There are three names for this holiday:

פסח זמן חרותנו חג המצות The Feast of The season of Passover Matzos our freedom According to Chassidus , these names are interrelated. Matzah represents bittul , selflessness. This quality leads to true freedom, and allows for Pesach (literally, “a jump”), a radical leap forward in our Divine service.

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