[Avodah] Yayin Mevushal

[Zev Sero]

On 9/01/2011 12:18 PM, Alan Rubin wrote:
> As I understand it, according to many authorities, if a non-Jew
> handles yayin mevushal this does not render it non-Kosher.

That is according to all authorities.


> The grounds
> for this ruling is that cooking would invalidate the wine for  avodah
> zara.

Indeed.  Presumably this was based on the AZ prevalent in Chazal's day.
Note that there's no reason for a link between what's valid for the
BHMK and what's valid for AZ.  We have our rules, they have theirs.
So what follows has no real connection to what came before.


> I am wondering about the logic behind this. There is a link between
> kiddush and libations in the temple. Wine that is invalid for libation
> in the temple might, lechatchilah at least, be unsuitable for kiddush.
> If pasteurising or otherwise heating wine is enough of a mevushal to
> take away the problem of touching by a non-Jew shouldn't that also
> render it unfit for kiddush?

That is the Rambam's opinion, but he's a daat yachid.

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