Selling Non-Kosher Foods: Difference between revisions

# 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>

# 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>

# 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 quotes Pri Chadash 117:3 as lenient and Pri Toar 117:3 as strict.</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>