[Avodah] Cholov Akum and Cholov Yisroel

[micha at aishdas.org]

From: Prof. Levine <larry62341 at optonline.net> 
Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2020 6:36 PM EST
> At 05:02 PM 3/1/2020, R Micha Berger wrote:
>> This analysis bothers me, because it forgets history before the 1950s.
>> When RMF even wrote his first teshuvah on the subject, it was already
>> the norm among most American shomerei kashrus not to be maqpid on CY.
>> And there was already precedent in other countries in other eras.

> Kashrus in America before the 1950s was in general in a sad state even for
> those who wanted to keep kosher properly...

But what does that have to do with *posqim* who arrived before Rav Moshe and
set the norm in the observant US to drink chalav Yisrael? What does the
later rise of OUKosher have to do with how R' Moshe Soloveitchik, RYBS, the
Ramaz or dozens of other talmidei chakhamim pasqened?

My observation wasn't about common practice, it was about how halakhah was
ruled by then-noted talmidei chakhamim. And it was the status quo RMF was
defending. He says as much. Claiming that we follow RMF is ahistorical,
since RMF himself says that drinking chalav hacompanies was preexisting
pesaq halakhah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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