Does Tootpaste Need To be Kosher? Rabbi Yakov Zev Smith

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foreign foreign [Music] our stylist that we have today are our stylist that we have today are probably unprecedented in haloga I'll give you a few examples what we have to deal with today today they started making recent years breath strips list of strips that were supposed to refreshing the breath the question if it needs a herction you're not eating it but it's in the mouth of course we have a Shyla about the lip balms that the people have for chapped lips they put chapsticks does that have to have the old child of toothpaste and mouthwash didn't have mouthwash didn't have but most recently with the E-Cigarettes The Vaping fascinating sugier where the ingredients are probably 50 tarfest does that have to have now you notice we have a variety of questions and we'll soon see many more but I think it's really one question that we have to try to clarify let's assume that at the part of the ingredients are trafe okay if it's certainly not trade trafe okay if it's certainly not trade there's no shine let's assume that the mouthwash the toothpaste or the The Vaping is assuming it's straight but then again you're not eating it you don't eat toothpaste no one makes them on a cup of Scope mouthwash and the the breath retina you know officially not eating it the question is if you take tarfus in your mouth to taste it you enjoy the taste in other words you like the taste of this breath freshener you're not

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1. 0:01foreign…
2. 6:18but to make a long story short the word glycerin comes from the Greek word glycorus…
3. 12:32taste is the real thing so now we're in a we're in a quanji what's going…
4. 18:44it's the fat of animals and you have to taste it to see if it had…
5. 24:55they can't be it's only team but then in Japanese ah you'll say but I'm gonna…
6. 31:01it's not NIV gum it's a regular food that's not nib gum so you're back to…
7. 37:10piece looks like a piece of plastic and you put it into freshen your breath now…
8. 43:26more careful petroleum jelly is not a conscious issue at all it's natural with no tarifus…
9. 49:34pass can there are more in ours that don't use bars of soap on Shabbos because…
10. 55:55now here's the critical point so what you're doing is you're taking this machine and you're…

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