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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine" <A href="mailto:llevine@stevens.edu">llevine@stevens.edu</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Today I bought a package of Meal Mart Amazing Meals Parve Baked Ziti
in<BR>tomato sauce. When I got it home, I noticed that there is a label
on<BR>the side that says in Yiddish "Nisht Yoshen" and in English "Not
Yoshen."<BR><BR>....After exchanging a few emails with Rabbi A. Teitlebaum who
supervises<BR>this product along with the OU, he wrote " According the
information we<BR>received, it is chodosh vadai, about your eating it, I can't
answer,"<BR><BR>Based on this I am going to return this product to the store. I
am not<BR>makpid on Yoshon, but my understanding is that one is allowed to
eat<BR>sofek Chodosh but not something that one knows for sure is Chodosh.<BR>Am
I correct? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>.....Based on all of this I really do not understand how Meal Mart
can <BR>market a product that is known to be vadai Chodosh.<BR><BR>Yitzchok
Levine<BR><BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV>Many hold that the prohibition of eating chadash does not apply in
chu'l.</DIV>
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<DIV>A different question is, how they can print a label whose accuracy will be
undermined by the mere passage of time? In a few weeks it will be
yoshon. (It will of course be Pesach by then and the ziti will still be
chometz but....)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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