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R.Harry Maryles asked:<BR>
<<Are?Poskim in the UK?Mekil on Chalav Stam using RMF's Sevara? What about Poskim in other countries?>><BR>
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The minhag among non-Charedim in England is to be meikil, and I am sure that this minhag predated RMF's teshuvos on the matter. Indeed, if the only basis for the kula was RMF, I am not sure whether it would have been accepted in England, as the poskim of England tend to look more to Europe and Israel than to America. When I moved from the Lakewood Kollel community in Melbourne to Manchester, I noticed that quite a few kulos which I had picked up in Melbourne were simply unknown in Manchester (e.g. allowing my wife to do melacha after I had brought in Shabbos early). The shul luchos in Manchester would state *candlelighting between 6:10 [i.e. plag hamincha] and 6:21 [i.e. the time we would get to bo'i khala in shul]*. RMF is lenient on this point, and I never observed this chumra until I got to England.<BR>
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Getting back to the milk issue, I presume that the minhag l'kula in England was based on the Peri Chadash, who held (IIRC) that if there is no genuine chashash of mixing chalav tameh, there is no reason to forbid unsupervised milk. I seem to remember R. Gil Student once writing on Hirhurim that this is also the real basis for the minhag in America , but I couldn't find the post.<BR>
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If the reason for the kulah is the Peri Chadash, then perhaps the prevalence of camels' milk in Europe could have halachic implications for the kashrus of unsupervised milk.<BR>
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I should point out, on a purely sociological note, that unlike in America, card-carrying Charedim in England do not drink non-supervised milk. Indeed, the use of unsupervised milk is one of those differences between charedim and what they call Englisher Yidden.<BR>
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Kol tuv<BR>
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