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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The entire psak starts from an
assumption: Eating is a social activity that binds (or can bind)
people together. Kashrut, an extremely important mitzvah, is not
something which should divide the divide the Jewish people. The
opposite: we have to make effort to keep the Ahm unified.
Therefore we must try and see if there are ways of keeping both
mitzvot. While hosting people is the ideal solution, it isn't
always possible and telling someone "You can eat with me but I
can't eat at your place" can be insulting and divisive. <br>
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The psak mainly deals with food that was bought somewhere else and
reheated or something which doesn't require cooking (I didn't
mention that point). Yes they talk about home cooked food, but
they advise against unless you can really investigate what went
into the dish.<br>
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I am not going to argue every point you made. Suffice to say, they
go the qula. For example, your point about buying meat from a
reliable heksher. First of all they say that food has to have a
heksher. More importantly, I have no doubt that you and they
would disagree as to what constitutes a reliable hesker (they
would be OK with the rabbinate). They bring sources for their
opinions, including eating salad, drinking non-mevushal wine,
microwave, etc.<br>
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Ben<br>
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On 12/6/2012 1:20 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
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R. Ben Waxman asked me if I read the article about this or only
his
summary. (I deleted his message to me.) <br>
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I have no idea what being attuned to the public means nor do I
know what
part of the public R. Neubert is referring to. It seems to me
from
what I read the being "attuned to the public" trumps halacha.
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YL<br>
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