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# Plastic or wood cutting boards do not need Tevilah, but those who are strict and do Tevilah for it will be blessed.<Ref> Hilchot [[Tevilat Kelim]] (Rabbi Moshe Fariz, 2:2-4) </ref> | # Plastic or wood cutting boards do not need Tevilah, but those who are strict and do Tevilah for it will be blessed.<Ref> Hilchot [[Tevilat Kelim]] (Rabbi Moshe Fariz, 2:2-4) </ref> | ||
# Earthenware dishes or fine china that have a glass glaze must have tevilat keilim without a bracha.<Ref>Yalkut Yosef Y.D. 120:2-3. See Igrot Moshe Y.D. 2:46 who in the context of kashrut and absorption of meat and milk writes that the glass glaze on china is insignificant and doesn't make it like glass.</ref> | # Earthenware dishes or fine china that have a glass glaze must have tevilat keilim without a bracha.<Ref>Yalkut Yosef Y.D. 120:2-3. See Igrot Moshe Y.D. 2:46 who in the context of kashrut and absorption of meat and milk writes that the glass glaze on china is insignificant and doesn't make it like glass.</ref> | ||
# Similarly, jars, bottles, or metal containers which are used only to store food and not used for food preparation or consumption should be immersed without a blessing. Utensils which are only used indirectly with food, such as bottle or can openers, and the like, do not require immersion. | # Anything used to improve the food that is ready to eat needs tevila include a metal noodle strainer.<ref>[https://www.crcweb.org/Tevillas%20Keilim%20(Jan%202019).pdf CRC]</ref> However, a utensil that only prepares ingredients that are not edible after that stage of the cooking require tevila without a bracha, such as a metal flour sifter.<ref>Rama Y.D. 120:5, Tevilat Kelim 11:150, [https://www.kof-k.org/articles/040108090413W-3%20Tevilas%20Keilim.pdf Kof-K]</ref> | ||
# Similarly, jars, bottles, or metal containers which are used only to store food and not used for food preparation or consumption should be immersed without a blessing. Utensils which are only used indirectly with food, such as bottle or can openers, and the like, do not require immersion.<Ref> Shach Y.D. 120:11, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 37:8-9, [[Shevet Halevi]] 6:245:4 </ref> | |||
# Common custom is not to require the immersion of plastic utensils<ref> Melamed Lehoil 2:48 </ref> even though some authorities argue that the similarities between glass and plastic would require it. <ref> Tzitz Eliezer 7:37, 8:26, Chelkat Yaakov 2:163, Yabia Omer Y.D. 4:8 </ref> | # Common custom is not to require the immersion of plastic utensils<ref> Melamed Lehoil 2:48 </ref> even though some authorities argue that the similarities between glass and plastic would require it. <ref> Tzitz Eliezer 7:37, 8:26, Chelkat Yaakov 2:163, Yabia Omer Y.D. 4:8 </ref> | ||
# Utensils which one is certain that they contain no glass or metal components need not be immersed. <Ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 37:3 </ref> | # Utensils which one is certain that they contain no glass or metal components need not be immersed. <Ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 37:3 </ref> | ||
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===Microwave=== | ===Microwave=== | ||
# Some say that a microwave (glass) tray which does not touch food doesn't require Tevilah, and if it does touch food then it requires Tevilah.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kof-k.org%2Farticles%2F040108090413W-3%2520Tevilas%2520Keilim.pdf Kof-K]. Also, Ach Tov Vchesed YD p. 32 writes that if the microwave plate majority of the time doesn't touch the food directly it doesn't need tevilah.</ref> However, some say that one should dip it without a bracha in all cases.<Ref>[http://www.star-k.org/cons-appr-tvilaskelim.htm Star-K] </ref> | # Some say that a microwave (glass) tray which does not touch food doesn't require Tevilah, and if it does touch food then it requires Tevilah.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kof-k.org%2Farticles%2F040108090413W-3%2520Tevilas%2520Keilim.pdf Kof-K]. Also, Ach Tov Vchesed YD p. 32 writes that if the microwave plate majority of the time doesn't touch the food directly it doesn't need tevilah.</ref> However, some say that one should dip it without a bracha in all cases.<Ref>[http://www.star-k.org/cons-appr-tvilaskelim.htm Star-K] </ref> | ||
===Keurig Machine=== | |||
# A Keurig machine according to many poskim does not require tevila. It is preferable to sell it to a non-Jew and borrow it back to avoid any issue.<ref>[https://oukosher.org/halacha-yomis/does-a-keurig-coffee-maker-require-tevila/ OU Halacha Yomi] explains that Rav Schachter holds a keurig machine doesn't require tevila because it would break if it were to be toveled. Rav Belsky holds that there are other reasons to exempt it from tevila but it is better to sell it to a non-Jew to avoid any issue.</ref> | |||
# For the reusable K-Kup coffee filters see discussion page. | |||
==Avoiding Tevila by Making them Ownerless== | |||
#A person should not make his utensils ownerless to avoid the mitzvah of tevilat kelim. In an extenuating circumstance some poskim allow making it ownerless in front of 3 people to use it without tevila. When a person reacquires it he should do tevila with a bracha.<ref>Tevilat Kelim 3:8 and 4:19. In ch. 3 fnt. 14 he cites Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Mishna Halachot 4:107 that in extenuating circumstance it is permitted to make it ownerless and use it without tevila. [http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-1-Mar-24-2020.pdf Rav Hershel Schachter (Teshuva dated 28 Adar 5780 p. 1)] applied this solution during covid and the mikvah's were closed.</ref> | |||
==A Convert’s Obligation in Tevilat Kelim== | ==A Convert’s Obligation in Tevilat Kelim== | ||
# There is a mitzvah to dip in a mikveh food utensils that one buys from a non-Jew called [[Tevilat Kelim]]. An interesting case arises when a non-Jew converts to Judaism. Are his pots, pans, and silverware considered as though they were acquired from a non-Jew, requiring [[Tevilat Kelim]]? Or, perhaps the mitzvah only applies when buying utensils and not when the utensils remain in the same domain. | # There is a mitzvah to dip in a mikveh food utensils that one buys from a non-Jew called [[Tevilat Kelim]]. An interesting case arises when a non-Jew converts to Judaism. Are his pots, pans, and silverware considered as though they were acquired from a non-Jew, requiring [[Tevilat Kelim]]? Or, perhaps the mitzvah only applies when buying utensils and not when the utensils remain in the same domain. | ||
# Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer YD 7:8) entertains the possibility of exempting a convert from [[Tevilat Kelim]] because this situation isn’t similar to the original story of Bnei Yisrael acquiring utensils from Midyan in which the utensils changed domains and not that the owners have undergone a transformation. Rav Wosner in Shevet HaLevi (4:92:2) disagrees and says that even though the form of [[acquisition]] isn’t identical to the original story, the fundamental transfer from a secular domain to one of [[kedusha]] is applicable to a convert. Interestingly, the Sochachover Rebbe (cited by Yabia Omer) argued that the convert’s undergoing of conversion is sufficient to also convert his utensils and exempt them from any obligation of [[Tevilat Kelim]]. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Grossnass (Lev Aryeh Siman 25) recommends doing tevilat kelim without a bracha because of the dispute. | # Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer YD 7:8) entertains the possibility of exempting a convert from [[Tevilat Kelim]] because this situation isn’t similar to the original story of Bnei Yisrael acquiring utensils from Midyan in which the utensils changed domains and not that the owners have undergone a transformation. Rav Wosner in Shevet HaLevi (4:92:2) disagrees and says that even though the form of [[acquisition]] isn’t identical to the original story, the fundamental transfer from a secular domain to one of [[kedusha]] is applicable to a convert. Interestingly, the Sochachover Rebbe (cited by Yabia Omer) argued that the convert’s undergoing of conversion is sufficient to also convert his utensils and exempt them from any obligation of [[Tevilat Kelim]]. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Grossnass (Lev Aryeh Siman 25) recommends doing tevilat kelim without a bracha because of the dispute. | ||
==If One Didn't Immerse a Utensil== | ==If One Didn't Immerse a Utensil== | ||
