[Avodah] Star-K on worms in fish

[Dov Kaiser]

R. Y. Levine wrote:

 

<<I am not sure exactly how grinding or pureeing works halachically so that one may use the  result. True, one can no longer see the worms or  bugs, but why is one allowed to do this l'chatchila? Is it not being mevatel an issur up front?>>

 

My Rav when I lived in Melbourne, who treats R. Heinemann's psakim as decisive, permitted us to buy brocolli to make soup, despite the impossibility of checking them properly, provided we bought them with that intention.  In other words, provided our intention in buying the brocolli was to make a soup, there was no problem of mevatel issur l'chatchila.  Had we bought the brocolli to eat whole, and then decided to make soup as a way of permitting them, there would have been a problem.  I assume this is the basis for Star-K's ruling in this case.

 

Kol tuv

Dov Kaiser

 		 	   		  
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