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Exploring the World of Hechsherim Part I The Opinionated Chemist Who Founded OU Kosher 12 31 202

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay. Um we're going to we're going to continue uh the cash in America series. I want to move on to the next phase of it and that is um is something that has always been wrapped up in controversy. Always made fights amongst rabanim laymen etc. Nothing has changed much in in regards to that ever since the beginning. I'll just I'll start with this. in in in 2022 after CO very recently after CO spawned after CO very recently after CO spawned a tremendous amount of home businesses right everybody knows everyone was selling sourdough and beef jerky and and fish platters and etc etc so this was a kulka that came out I think everyone remembers when this came out there was a ka signed by kamatki miller former first and it said as follows it said basically like this kava We have a known known rule given to us from you should not purchase a food item from any Jewish person even if he has someone we assume to be a kosher unless unless there's a he has a in his hand from a well-known even if he's a trustworthy upstanding individual he needs to have that's more you know stringent because when a person is engaging in because when a person is engaging in selling foods for the purpose of making a profit he needs to have that's more uh you know on a higher level than than what would a person would normally just have to be trustworthy now and and this became like a rule and what they were what they were stressing is essentially an old rule that exists already but a rule that isn't actually So it needs restressing. Meaning there's no sith in that says that if you want to buy a product from your fellow Jew that it has to have a there's no s that says

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  1. 0:00Okay. Um we're going to we're going to continue uh the cash in America series. I
  2. 2:34York City where they could be 2 million Jews or whatever a huge in the market
  3. 5:07the U. Um and he started picking up products. Now at a certain point Abraham Goldstein
  4. 7:39scrubbed kimat from the from the U from the history of Kashras and ultimately what develops
  5. 10:11says something else other say something else and it's a grace of grace about the limitations
  6. 13:28seemingly the Ram holds there's a there's some sort of degradation there's a degeneration of cash
  7. 16:01the the real that seems to say that the is like the Rambam that something that
  8. 18:32people who were in there were people who were out the vad artist split off on
  9. 21:09woman shaves her head. Now if you look in the from others you'll see that the
  10. 23:53Unless it has a this is what the brings from the very cuz people are are

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