Apple Shellac: Is It Permitted?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] Shalom. Today we want to learn about the shellac that is being used to be to make the apple so shiny and appealing and whether it is permitted or not. What is the shellac? If you rub the apple just very gently without removing the peel. You'll see that there's some kind peel. You'll see that there's some kind of substance that's being peeled on top of your knife. This is the shellac. The shellac itself is a substance that grows on the tree. It's secreted by millions of tiny insects in the area of India and Thailand. And the puskim debate of whether it is permitted since the insects are not permitted. Anything that comes out from the insects is also not permitted. So what's the two sides? They

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1. 0:01[music] Shalom. Today we want to learn about the shellac that is being used to be…
2. 0:32peel. You'll see that there's some kind of substance that's being peeled on top of your…
3. 1:02permitted. So what's the two sides? They go Moshe Moshe Feinstein holds that it is permitted…
4. 1:33the bee is just a carrier of taking the the um pollands and making them into…
5. 2:06eaten because the Torah itself forbids the anything that comes out of the insects, anything that…
6. 2:36Mosha also wanted to say that since it gets hardened after it's taken out from the…
7. 3:07rub it very well you'll be able to avoid it. You can also buy um apples…

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