Trusting Others for Kashrut: Difference between revisions
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==Non-Jews== | ==Non-Jews== | ||
#A non-Jew is not trusted to permit or forbid anything. If he is speaking casually and he isn't aware the the halacha is concerned for this matter then for rabbinic matters and there's no presumption of it being prohibited we can trust them.<ref>Chachmat Adam 72:17</ref> | |||
==Children== | |||
# Children are not reliable when it comes to anything of Biblical standards and is not included in ''Ed Echad Neeman Bissurim''. Nonetheless, if he is wise and it is circumstantially reasonable what he is saying then we can trust him to prohibit something or to permit something if it was previously assumed to be forbidden if it is within his ability to fix it. Some say that even with these conditions we only trust them only for rabbinic questions and some say it is even for Biblical matters.<ref>Chachmat Adam 72:16 citing a dispute between the Shach 127:31 and Magen Avraham 437:8</ref> | |||
#They are trusted with regards to any concern that someone switched the kosher food with non-kosher food as could happen with deliveries or having a non-Jew watch kosher food.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 127:4, Chachmat Adam 72:15</ref> | |||
==''Hechsher'' and ''Mashgiach''== | ==''Hechsher'' and ''Mashgiach''== | ||
