[Avodah] Cholov Stam

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:31:20PM -0500, Rafi Hecht wrote:
...
: http://www.mywesternwall.net/2010/11/14/harav-moshe-feinstein-milk-bottles-story.html
...
: [ http://bit.ly/znhven ]

I heard the story from his nephew, and while the basic drift is right, the details
aren't.

    A story is told about where Reb Moshe was at a certain convention
    and two different brands of bottles of milk were in front of him. He
    reportedly picked up one bottle, looked at it, then put it down and
    used the other bottle of milk. Word spread that R' Moshe didn't
    consider one of the brands to be kosher, and therefore he put it
    down. Needless to say, many followers boycotted the said brand.

    ... "Oh that? I honestly don't know why people are making such
    a fuss. I picked up one bottle, which happened to be your brand,
    and saw that it was empty...."


It was a milk carton, at a beris. The milk was J&J and Golden Flow,
respectively. (Last point thrown in to show quality of my source's
memory.)

The relevent point is that "carton" implies a different decade than
"bottle" would.

Since people can draw different conclusions from RFM's different
teshuvos, placing the story in relation to the dates on the teshuvos
might be significant.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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