[Avodah] Beis Yosef Meat

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:06:46AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> However, RYL asked RSM, who is *the* authority on how meat is shechted
>> lemaaseh. If R' Mandel said that all Seph meat is kosher to Ashk

> Nope.  He said that the meat which is sold in the USA as "Bet Yosef"
> is kosher for both.  This says nothing about minhag Sefard, especially
> as it was practised in EY in the days of the Old Yishuv or as it's
> practised there today.

Actually, RSM's job is international. Anything the OU gives a hashgachah
to on the imports -- whether directly or as an ingredient. Although I
agree I doubt the US imports too much Bet Yosef meat from Israel...

The whole chiluq I was trying to make is between the machloqes in theory
and whether or not we have to be chosheish for any Seph actually using a
heter an Ashk can't eat from. Thus my repeated "lemaaseh" in my earlier
post, as in "I assume they lemaaseh do niqur and avoid shehiyah in ways
that make that statement true." So I'm not sure what the "days of the Old
Yishuv" have to do with the conversation once I shifted from a machloqes
in theory to what one may rely on in practice.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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