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==General==
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#For Sephardim, if one left meat in one's house and one's windows are closed so that birds can't come in, or if the meat was covered and remained covered, it is kosher. <ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 63:1</ref>
#For Sephardim, if one left meat in one's house and one's windows are closed so that birds can't come in, or if the meat was covered and remained covered, it is kosher. <ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 63:1</ref>


===Buying Meat From Non-Jews===
==Buying Meat From Non-Jews==
#The Rabbis established that it is not permitted to (buy and) eat any meat that a non-Jew has in their possession, even if all the meat stores and slaughterhouses in the area are Kosher. This is even true if it is known that the non-Jew bought the meat from a Jew, because of Basar Shenitalem Min Haayin.<ref>Shach Y.D. 118:5, Chochmat Adam Klal 27:12</ref> However, there are some that disagree with the last point, and believe that if it is known that the non-Jew bought the meat originally from a Jew, then it is okay to (buy and) eat, if there was no way for the non-Jew to switch the meat.<ref>see the Shach Y.D. 118:5 who quotes the Levush who is Meikil</ref>
 
#It is okay to buy (Kosher) meat from a non-Jewish vendor if the vendor makes sure to sell them with the proper double-seal from the Jewish distributors, given that the type of double-seal is well-known.<ref>Iggrot Moshe Y.D. 1:56</ref> Rabbi Moshe Feinstein explains that if the storeowner switched the meat and forged the double-seal of the Kosher butcher, then he would miss out on selling the pieces of Kosher meat for a more expensive price.<ref>Iggrot Moshe Y.D. 1:56</ref>
#The Rabbis established that it is not permitted to (buy and) eat any meat that a non-Jew has in their possession, even if all the meat stores and slaughterhouses in the area are Kosher. This is even true if it is known that the non-Jew bought the meat from a Jew, because of ''Basar Shenitalem Min Haayin''.<ref>Shach Y.D. 118:5, Chochmat Adam Klal 27:12</ref> However, there are some that disagree with the last point, and believe that if it is known that the non-Jew bought the meat originally from a Jew, then it is okay to (buy and) eat, if there was no way for the non-Jew to switch the meat.<ref>see the Shach Y.D. 118:5 who quotes the Levush who is Meikil</ref>
#It is okay to buy (Kosher) meat from a non-Jewish vendor if the vendor makes sure to sell them with the proper double-seal from the Jewish distributors, given that the type of double-seal is well-known.<ref>Iggrot Moshe Y.D. 1:56</ref> Rabbi Moshe Feinstein explains that if the store owner switched the meat and forged the double-seal of the Kosher butcher, then he would miss out on selling the pieces of Kosher meat for a more expensive price.<ref>Iggrot Moshe Y.D. 1:56</ref>


==Sources==
==Sources==
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