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<font size=3>At 09:40 AM 1/22/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at
05:36:37AM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
: What is your basis for asserting that Rav Breur ruled that Chalav<br>
: Stam was permissible?<br><br>
Evidence is, R' Breuer (RMB) was in the "good chumerah" camp
when it<br>
came to chalav yisrael (CY).</font></blockquote><br>
First of all, how does Rabbi Dr. Yosef Breuer, ZT"L, come to
be abbreviated as RMB?<br><br>
I do not believe that this is accurate.<br><br>
From
<a href="https://goo.gl/ur8iNi" eudora="autourl">https://goo.gl/ur8iNi</a>
<br><br>
<font size=1>TO THE EDITOR: (of Hamodia Magazine)<br><br>
In the article “Kashrus Thrives in America” in the<br>
<i>Parashas Re’eh</i>/August 27 issue, Yitzchok Cohen writes: “In
those<br>
years there were relatively few American Jews who were stringent<br>
in their kashrus observance, and there were hardly any farms that<br>
were willing to commit themselves to providing <i>chalav Yisrael.
</i>After<br>
great effort, the Tzehlimer Rav succeeded in producing the first<br>
line of <i>chalav Yisrael </i>products in America. The line went by
the<br>
name ‘Kahal,’ and all the strictly observant Jews in America knew<br>
that this was the only brand that was 100-percent kosher. The<br>
Kahal company later became the J&J Dairy Co.”<br>
There is something more to the story of the production of <i>chalav<br>
Yisrael </i>in America. In 1882 Sholom Yitzchok (Isaac) and (Shifra)<br>
Rivka Raskas immigrated from Kovno, Lithuania, to St. Louis to join<br>
members of Mrs. Raskas’s family, the Sarasohns. They lived about<br>
ten blocks from the Mississippi River. Isaac<br>
started selling milk. After the turn of the<br>
century, the family moved to 1313 North<br>
Newstead, which at that time was still a<br>
semi-rural area on the western fringe of St.<br>
Louis, and began a small dairy that<br>
eventually developed into a large company.<br>
The Raskases were sincerely committed<br>
Orthodox Jews. Pictures of their parents<br>
show that they both came from learned<br>
Litvishe families. They produced what was<br>
probably the first commercially available<br>
<i>chalav Yisrael </i>in America, long before the Tzehlimer Rav
arrived<br>
here.<br><br>
Furthermore, one should not overlook the role that Harav Dr.<br>
Yosef Breuer played in the production and distribution of <i>chalav<br>
Yisrael</i>. In <i>Rav Breuer: His Life and Legacy</i>, we are told,
“Rav<br>
Breuer was in the forefront of the efforts to make <i>chalav Yisrael<br>
</i>milk products commercially available in the United States — a<br>
policy that was almost unheard of in America in the early 1940s.”<br>
A footnote to this statement adds, “The first commercially available<br>
<i>chalav Yisrael </i>in America, Balsam Farms, under the supervision
of<br>
the Tzehlimer Rav, began production in the late 1930s. This milk<br>
was not available in Manhattan due to lack of demand. In 1940<br>
Rav Breuer arranged for it to be sold in Washington Heights, and<br>
when Balsam could not keep up with the demand, made<br>
arrangements for supervision of what became known as Kahal<br>
Dairies. Later, J&J milk came under the Kehillah’s [KAJ’s]<br>
supervision.”<br>
Thus, the Tzehlimer Rav first supervised Balsam milk, not Kahal<br>
milk, which came later. Also, it is clear from the information about<br>
the Raskas dairy that Balsam Farms was not the first commercially<br>
available <i>chalav Yisrael </i>in America.<br>
PROFESSOR YITZCHOK LEVINE<br><br>
<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>While RMB
made CY available in Manhattan, KAJ never was maqpid on CY as<br>
a general norm. I was told by a number of products of KAJ, people
who<br>
are now yeshivish and maqpidim on CY themselves (which is why
they're<br>
living in Passaic), that this reflects R Breuer's own
position.</font></blockquote><br>
As you can see from my letter to the editor of the Hamodia
Magazine, this does not seem to be accurate.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br><br>
-- <br>
Micha
Berger
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