Selling Non-Kosher Foods: Difference between revisions
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# 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> | ||
# Some poskim permit feeding one's non-Jewish workers non-Kosher food, while others forbid this.<ref>Rama 117:1 is strict but Shach 117:3 is lenient. Kaf Hachaim 117:12 | # Some poskim permit feeding one's non-Jewish workers non-Kosher food, while others forbid this.<ref>Rama 117:1 is strict but Shach 117:3 is lenient. Kaf Hachaim 117:12 cites those who are lenient and those who are strict. Pri Chadash 117:3 is also lenient and implies that as long as one doesn't buy non-kosher animals to raise them to feed to his workers it is permitted. Pri Toar 117:3 is strict on feeding one's workers with non-kosher food. However, he answers the Pri Chadash's proof by explaining that telling working that they can buy whatever non-kosher food they want and he'll pay the bill since he didn't buy it and then give it to them. </ref> | ||
# It is permitted to sell non-Kosher animals to a non-Jew if they are going to be worked and not eaten such as horses, donkeys, or camels.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 117:1, Shach 117:1. Kaf Hachaim 117:2 points out that this depends on the majority practice of the time and place.</ref> | # It is permitted to sell non-Kosher animals to a non-Jew if they are going to be worked and not eaten such as horses, donkeys, or camels.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 117:1, Shach 117:1. Kaf Hachaim 117:2 points out that this depends on the majority practice of the time and place.</ref> | ||
# One can sell vegetables that have bugs in them since one isn't profiting from the bugs.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 117:3</ref> | # One can sell vegetables that have bugs in them since one isn't profiting from the bugs.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 117:3</ref> | ||
