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# It is forbidden for a Jew to sell or gift non-Kosher food to a non-Jew provided that it is Biblically forbidden or has a doubt of being Biblically forbidden<ref>Rabbi Akiva Eiger 117:1. See Kaf Hachaim Y.D. 117:1 who writes that this depends on whether selling non-Kosher is Biblically prohibited or only rabbinically. If it is only rabbinic then if a food is a doubt then it can be sold.</ref>. However, something that is only rabbinically forbidden one can sell to a non-Jew.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 117:1</ref> | # It is forbidden for a Jew to sell or gift<ref>Hagahot Maimoniyot Machalot Asurot 8 establishes that it is forbidden to give a gift of Biblically non-kosher food to a non-Jew just like it is forbidden to sell them non-kosher food. Bet Yosef 117:1 explains that it is based on the fact that when you give a gift it is like paying someone since people generally don't give gifts unless it is in exchange for a favor. Shach 117:3 quotes this and doesn't argue on this part. Kaf Hachaim 117:28 agrees and cites many who do as well including Pri Chadash 117:3, Pri Toar 117:3, Makom Shmuel 77, Shoel Umeishiv 1:3:122, and Mahari Ayash in Bet Yehuda 15. Ben Yisrael Lnochri YD 15:8 also says it is forbidden to gift a non-Jew non-Kosher food.</ref> non-Kosher food to a non-Jew provided that it is Biblically forbidden or has a doubt of being Biblically forbidden<ref>Rabbi Akiva Eiger 117:1. See Kaf Hachaim Y.D. 117:1 who writes that this depends on whether selling non-Kosher is Biblically prohibited or only rabbinically. If it is only rabbinic then if a food is a doubt then it can be sold.</ref>. However, something that is only rabbinically forbidden one can sell to a non-Jew.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 117:1</ref> | ||
# The reason it is forbidden to sell non-Kosher to a non-Jew is based on a pasuk and according to many poskim this derivation is Biblical.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 117:1 based on many poskim, see also Darkei Teshuva 117:25</ref> However, some hold that it is only a rabbinic enactment so that a Jew doesn't come to eat the non-Kosher food.<ref>Taz 117:1 explains that the Rashba holds that the derivation is only an asmachta.</ref> | # The reason it is forbidden to sell non-Kosher to a non-Jew is based on a pasuk and according to many poskim this derivation is Biblical.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 117:1 based on many poskim, see also Darkei Teshuva 117:25</ref> However, some hold that it is only a rabbinic enactment so that a Jew doesn't come to eat the non-Kosher food.<ref>Taz 117:1 explains that the Rashba holds that the derivation is only an asmachta.</ref> | ||
# Just as it is forbidden to sell non-Kosher food to a non-Jew it is forbidden to give a non-Jew a gift of non-Kosher food.<ref>Shach 117:3, Kaf Hachaim 117:28</ref> | # Just as it is forbidden to sell non-Kosher food to a non-Jew it is forbidden to give a non-Jew a gift of non-Kosher food.<ref>Shach 117:3, Kaf Hachaim 117:28</ref> | ||
