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ב”ה כסלו תשע”ו KISLEV 5776 CERTIFIED SOUL NUTRITION HAPPY CHANUKAH! 3 SHARE YOUR SPIRIT 4 QUESTIONS FOR THE ~ 5 HEALTHY SPIRIT OLIVE OIL 6 By Rabbi BenZion Chanowitz Dear Reader, 176 ~ KOSHERED YOUR As the cold winter months settle in, nothing can beat 10 WORLD IN 2015 good old-fashioned chicken soup. It warms the soul and even heals the body. Then people came around and said DUCKTRAP RIVER that oil and fat are not so good for you…so they cut out 12 OF MAINE most of the oil. Some animal-rights groups said that we should not eat chicken…so they cut out the chicken. Then FROM THE DESK OF others said that salt is not healthy…so out went the salt. 16 RABBI DON YOEL LEVY Next thing you know, the soup was completely watered down and hardly resembled the original, hearty, good old CHANUKAH RECIPE Jewish penicillin. 19 The Gemara, in Maseches Shabbos, discusses at great length the proper oil for use in the menorah. Back then, the WHO’S BEHIND THE ~ discussions mainly consisted of the different characteristics 20 -RABBI YISROEL SELWYN of the oils, how clean they burned or how they smelled when they burned. However, today, oils, like traditional FROM GOLUS TO Jewish chicken soup, are getting diluted and more 22 GEULAH complicated than ever before. Even extra virgin olive oil Compiled by Dina Fraenkel might not always be what it seems, as you will see in Rabbi Bentzion Chanowitz’s article about olive oil. SOUL NUTRITION Some people say this watering down is what is 23 By Rabbi Chaim Fogelman unfortunately happening to Yiddishkeit today, like your grandmother’s authentic chicken soup of yesteryear. There are those who want to water down our “taste” and appetite for authentic Yiddishkeit, for Torah and mitzvos. Once it’s watered down, Yiddishkeit doesn’t have the same punch and enthusiasm as in previous generations. At the ~, we work hard to keep the “fire burning”. We continue to strive to ensure that we don’t cut any corners and we deliver kosher without compromise. It’s our part in KOSHER SPIRIT Chanukah 5776 preserving Hashem’s Torah and the continuity of Yiddishkeit EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: for future generations. Rabbi Chaim Fogelman Wishing you a warm and happy Chanukah, EDITOR: Dina Fraenkel Rabbi Chaim Fogelman DESIGN: Editor in Chief Spotlight Design We welcome your comments, submissions and letters to the editor. Mail: 391 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213 MAZAL TOV! Email: [email protected] © 2015. No portion of this publication may be reprinted without written consent from OK Kosher & Kehilla Kashrus have merged! Stay tuned for the publisher. details of the merger featured in the next issue. 2 www.OK.org FEEDBACK Share Your Spirit Readers share their thoughts... Dear Kosher Spirit, I just read the Q&A article on “Does beer require a hechsher?” Why is domestic light beer different? - Seymour W. Dear Seymour , Domestic light beers are produced through the use of enzymes. Theoretically if a beer does not have a certification there is a possibility that non-kosher enzymes could have been used to produce the light beer. -Ed. Dear Kosher Spirit, I was reading the article in Kosher Spirit which talks about gelatin. It says that gelatin from a cow is pareve due to the process, so I was wondering why the gelatin of fish should not be eaten with meat, assuming its process is the same as from a cow? - Yosef J. Dear Yosef, halachically it could be rendered However the health risk of eating “non-fish” it is practically still fish fish and meat together is debated Thank you for taking the time to read and therefore poses a health issue amongst poskim, and although we my article. Your question indicates when eaten with meat. generally still don’t eat meat and fish that you actually managed to read till The rule is Chamira Sakanta together there are poskim that say the end which is much appreciated. M’isurra, that we are stricter with that we can be lenient with fish gelatin Meat and dairy can’t be eaten hazardous foods than with forbidden and meat, as you brought up in your together for kashrus reasons and foods. If a drop of poison falls into question. Since it is a debated topic, I therefore if meat is rendered a food mixture we won’t eat it even only wrote that one should be aware halachically “non-meat” then it if the poison is less than a sixtieth that marshmallows have fish gelatin, can be eaten with dairy, as is the of the mixture. Similarly if fish gets since the topic is an article in itself. case by rennet. However Shulchan mixed with meat, irrespective of I would therefore suggest that one Oruch states that we shouldn’t eat the amount of fish that went in the speaks to their personal Rov regarding fish and meat together because of mixture, it can’t be eaten because eating fish gelatin with meat. health reasons; therefore, even if eating it would pose a health risk. -Rabbi Rappaport www.KosherSpirit.com 3 The ~ receives many letters/emails with kosher questions... I have a few questions about The ~ Responds: Bishul Yisroel. The ~ requires Bishul Yisroel for French fries, but we will accept non-Bishul Yisroel potato chips in our restaurants. • Does the ~ require Bishul When the ~ certifies potato chip production, we do Yisroel on foods that are generally require Bishul Yisroel. oleh al shulchan melachim (fit If the product is edible straight from the can, we do to be served at a king’s table), require Bishul Yisroel. but the specific recipe is not (i.e. Usually there is a mashgiach temidi for anything that potato chips or French fries)? is Bishul Yisroel, so we do allow pilot lights l’chatchila, • What if the food is oleh al but only in the fire or in very close proximity. The shluchan melachim but requires mashgiach’s job is to check the pilot lights every further processing, like canned morning to make sure they are working and do not yams, which are edible out of the blow out easily. For restaurants or caterers that are for can but are usually cooked further Sephardim, we require Bishul Yisroel according to the before serving? Beis Yosef and the mashgiach has to put the food on the fire himself. • Do you allow pilot lights for The ~ does not require steam cooking to be Bishul Bishul Yisroel l’chatchila? Yisroel. • Do you require steaming to be done by a shomer Shabbos Jew? 4 www.OK.org The mitzvah of Chanukah is to warm and brighten the cold outdoor darkness by spreading the holy light of the candles. The cold winter is tough in many ways, especially on our skin. Here are 8 ways to keep your skin warm and glowing. USE DRINK SUNSCREEN WHEN PLENTY OF WATER. GOING OUTSIDE. IT A HYDRATED BODY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE HOT IS ESSENTIAL FOR TO GET SUNBURN! HYDRATED SKIN. KEEP SKIN COVERED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE MOISTURIZE 8 WHEN VENTURING DAILY WITH OUTDOORS. COCONUT OIL. WAYS TO PROTECT EATING CITRUS FRUITS, WHICH ARE HIGH IN EAT FOODS YOUR SKIN VITAMIN C, BOOSTS THE THAT ARE HIGH IN VITAMIN BODY’S PRODUCTION OF COLLAGEN, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL E AND OMEGA-3 FATTY FOR HEALTHY SKIN. ACIDS. BOTH OF THESE ARE DURING ESSENTIAL FOR HEALTHY SKIN. THE COLD WINTER TAKE SHORTER SHOWERS AND TRY WHEN INSIDE, USE TO MAINTAIN NOT TO USE VERY A HUMIDIFIER MONTHS HOT WATER. A COMFORTABLE LEVEL OF HUMIDITY IN YOUR HOME. www.KosherSpirit.com 5 Olive Rabbi Bentzion OilChanowitz Centuries a go, one of the staple items that was found in After all, what could be wrong with the oil? It was 100% most homes was olive oil. Olive oil was used to light up the pure oil that came from an olive! house, to soften and perfume skin and of course for human In the 19th century, and later on as they perfected the consumption. Often meals in those days consisted of bread process (in 1960), companies began producing oil from dipped in olive oil. vegetables. These vegetables include corn, soybeans, pea- Olive oil is relatively easy to make. The olives are pressed nuts, hazel nuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, cotton seeds, so that the oil flows out of the fruit. Well, actually it is olive cocoa butter, coconuts, and palm. Though many of the juice that flows out of the olive. But, after leaving the juice above mentioned are not really vegetables, we use the term standing for some time, the oil will rise to the top (since it broadly, as the processing is similar. So how can one ex- is lighter), while the water will settle at the bottom. After- tract oil from these vegetables? They cannot be squeezed wards, the oil is skimmed off the top. Nowadays it is easier like olives! to separate the oil by spinning it in a centrifuge. Apparently, if you use a lot of heat and pressure (expeller This process is only able to extract a minimal amount of pressing), or with the aid of chemical solvents like hexane oil from the olives. At some point in time, producers real- (chemical extraction), you can express oil out of vegetables. ized that if they were to grind the olives and then squeeze This extracted oil is often overly acidic, does not look pre- them using heavy grindstones and wooden beams, more sentable and may have an “off” smell. To remedy this, the liquid would be expressed from the olives.

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