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size=3>Professor Levine wrote:</DIV><BR>”We drink all of the non-mevushal wine
we use at the sedarim, so there is no concern our non-Jewish cleaning lady
might have access to the non-mevushal wine. However, this is not the
case during the rest of the year. <BR><BR>It seems to me that it is preferable
to use mevushal wine the rest of the year and not have to chance the gentile
cleaning lady coming in contact with our wine. If she did then I would
have to throw the wine away. Hence, by using mevushal wine I feel that I
am avoiding the possibility of Baal Tashchis.”<BR><BR></FONT>
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<P>I do not understand this concern with the cleaning lady. If we are leaving
non-Jews alone, unsupervised, in our homes, doesn’t this create a problem with
all our keilim in terms of kashrut? If we’re there ‘supervising’ then why would
we be concerned about her helping herself to the open bottle in the fridge? And
does moving a closed (but not sealed) bottle over a couple of inches to wipe the
shelf even create a problem in terms of ‘stam yaynam?’ Doesn’t she have to open
and/or pour it to be problematic?<BR>-Eitan
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