[Avodah] Toiveling a Tray

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

OU Kosher Halacha Yomis

Q. This Purim, I am planning to send cookies to my neighbor on a 
metal tray for mishloach manos. Should I tovel the tray, or should my 
neighbor perform the tevilah?

A. Bais Yosef (Yoreh De'ah 120) writes that tevilah is only required 
for utensils used with food. Thus, if a Jewish store owner buys 
utensils from a non-Jew for resale, the merchant is not obligated to 
perform the mitzvah of tevilah. Since there is no mitzvah, even if 
the merchant was tovel the utensils, the tevilah would be 
ineffective; the purchaser would be required to perform tevilah in 
spite of the earlier tevilah. Similarly, a tray purchased as a 
stand-alone gift cannot be toveled before it reaches the recipient. 
However, if the gift will be a tray with food on it (such as 
mishloach manos on a tray), there is a dispute whether the giver is 
required to perform tevilah. Therefore, the proper procedure in the 
latter case is for the giver to tovel the tray without a bracha and 
then inform the recipient that he too should tovel the tray without a bracha.

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