<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I suspect that this is one of those things which cannot be answered Al Regel Achas. Rather, the answer requires a thorough study of Hilchos Taaruvos. Too many subjects are mixed together here. The ingredient was added deliberately, but by a non-Jew, so does it count as L'chatchila or B'diavad? And so on...<br>
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Akiva Miller<br>
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_<br></blockquote></div><br>Here is a quick regel achas<br><br><ol><li>When a Nochri intentions puts in a non-kosher ingredient as part of the formula it's AIUI a real problem of bittul l"chatchila when it is an ongoing procedure etc.</li>
<li>However, if a Nochri takes an existing MIXTURE and intentionally Adds THAT, then - even if that mixture had a problematic ingredient - it would NOT posea problem per se [unless the problem ingredient was really significant and noticeable.</li>
</ol><br>Illustrations:<br><br><ol><li>Nochri intentionally adds butter for texture. While the butter is otherwise battel, it must be treated as dariy [add if he uses lard instead, it is treif]</li><li>Nochri adds a flavoring that contains many components, and one of them is grape flavor. Since the nochri is NOT focused upon that individual componentbut upon the compound - that may indeed be boteil! <br>
</li></ol>Summary:<br>AIUI I was issuing warnings about cases simliar to 1 and RAF was showing the heterim in cases simlar to 2. <br>-- <br>Shalom uVRacha<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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