[Avodah] Gelatin
Meir Shinnar
chidekel at gmail.com
Wed May 26 15:18:57 PDT 2021
R Zev Sero
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> All the erlichkeit in the world won't help, though, when the mashgiach
> holds that something (whether it's gelatin, or the belly fat under the
> membrane, or vegetarian cheese made by a nochri, etc.) is kosher and I
> hold otherwise.
>
For the vast majority of us, we don’t have strong personal shittot and
authentic family minhagim to decide amongst the different shittot - we
go by local communal peak. RZS, family habad, may have those shittot -
but for most of us we follow the shitta of our community/posek - and if
we move, we would likely follow the shitta of our new community. (Eg,
It is difficult to believe that anyone has a strong family minhag about
gelatin, given recent origin of its use…- and the possum on both sides
are not lightweight - any minhag is at best one or two, maybe 3
generations…). Same thing with halav hacompanies)
With that (and even with those who have shittot), there is a sense that
one can rely on other authentic shittot - especially as guest - and also
that those who follow other shittot are not just being meikil or eating
trafe…
Famous story of RSZA telling head of Michlala that his American students
can go eat at their RZ families in Israel who keep Rabbanit hashgacha -
because it is kasher, and even though he has different shittot, they can
eat there.
Rav of former community - impeccable hared credentials, musmach of rav
Henkin zt”l - held one could eat from the hashgacha of any Orthodox
rabbi - unless one knew there was a problem..(it seems that this was rav
Moshe’s shitta too…)
So yes, for almost everyone, ehrlichkeit is more important…
Meir Shinnar
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