[Avodah] Kashrus Advisory - Tevilas Keilim

[Rich, Joel]

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Kashrus Advisory - Tevilas Keilim

February 15, 2018 from the OK<http://www.ok.org/consumers/kosher-alerts/type/alert/>:

Please be advised: gift trays may need to be toiveled if they will be further reused for food use.
According to Jewish law, the proprietor is not required to perform tevilas keilim but the consumer may be obligated to do so. Please consult your personal Rav.

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I wonder what triggered this warning now?  Here are some sources from Hirhurim/audio roundup:


Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz -Ten Minute Halacha - The Candy Dish Problem Part 3<http://download.yutorah.org/2012/1109/772338/Ten%20Minute%20Halacha%20-%20The%20Candy%20Dish%20Problem%20Part%203.MP3>
The western alliance is safe! A list of things that don't work for allowing full candy dishes to be sold without a lfnei iver concern, then possible approaches that work - 1) only make the package up after you order it (and then you should toveil first); 2) don't use glass but something that doesn't require tvila; 3) rely on R'Asher Weiss's opinion that store can toveil anyway; 4) only fill the dish with pre-packaged items so dish isn't really used (me - not sure how this actually works once you open a candy bag, it usually isn't of much use - so not sure why this is better than putting plastic sheeting under the candy).

Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-Ten Minute Halacha - The Candy Dish Problem Part 1<http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/772140/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_The_Candy_Dish_Problem_Part_1>
A real cliff hanger - can the vaad give a hechsher to a store that sells prefilled candy dishes? Toveiling the dish by the store doesn't work (not Kli Seudah for them) and most people won't take the candy out and toveil them (so lfnei Iver or mesayeah?). The one time use leniency doesn't work (the dish is not meant to be disposable) and the R'Moshe "could you do it without it" doesn't work l'chatchila. As R' Lebowitz later notes, there may be bigger issues facing klal Yisael J. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be enough for the stores to say CLOR on tevilla needs (we recently had some heimish nondairy whipped cream in a shpritz can which said in small print - consult your clor (or something like that in frumspeak) concerning using this product on shabbat.

https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/12/the-candy-dish-dilemma/

KT
Joel Rich


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