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פרשת בהעלתך PARSHAT BEHA'ALOTCHA Avot Chapter 2
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Introduction to Bishul Akum
decreed that such food, even when cooked in kosher utensils, is prohibited for consumption. This prohibition is known as bishul akum. In the coming weeks we will discuss the parameters For Sale: of this rabbinic prohibition, including the reasons 25 Ben Maimon, 4 rooms, 113m, behind the decree, when it applies, and 2 bathrooms, porch, 1st floor, elevator, the practical halacha for modern industrial kashrut. 6.2 million NIS Food is a very connecting element in Smadar 050-3114040 // 02-642-4329 every society. That is the basis behind the smadi_bida@walla.co.il decree of bishul akum. Our Sages were very 70 TORAH about TIDBITS close 1514 / relationships EMOR concerned with non-Jews since intermarriage is a very severe transgression. The prohibition effectively limits Jews and gentiles dining with each other, although there is no specific prohibition against dining with a non-Jew per se. (See Rashi on Avodah Zara 31:b.) Forbidding the non-Jew’s cooking would be enough to create an emotional distance such that families wouldn’t marry into each other. Rabbeinu Tam (Tosfot Avodah Zara 38:a) and Rambam (Ma’achalot Asurot 17:9)
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