עולם הכשרות

TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORLD OF FOOD

• Technological advances have effected the world of food production:
• How it is grown (vegetation and animal)
• How it is shipped, packaged, and marketed
• How it is stored
• All these can have an הלכה significance.

DOES HALACHA CHANGE?

• Halachic principles don't change
• We need to evaluate the application of them in a changing world.
• Inspect the changing reality and then think about how that applies

WHO'S IN CHARGE?

• Rabbanut set up a specical branch to oversee
• They are in charge of dealing with all these questions
• Overtime, other branches arose to deal with each area
• These include: meat, importing meat, factories, food houses, import, and מצוות תליות בארץ
• The following slides will detail what the issues are

MEAT

• This includes - schechita
• Making sure that the animals slaughtered are kosher
• to all other concerns about animals in halacha (pidyon)
• preventing טרפות by shots in birds
• or any other treatments to animals

כשרות בשר מיובא

• Inspect all meat for market here in Israel
• Concerned about the: schechita
• Whether it was from a kosher animal or a נבילה, טריפה
• בשר קפוא

Terms to know

• נבילה - - meat that didn't receive proper שחיטה
• טריפה -  meat from an animal that would have died anywhay
• מליחה - salting the meat
• בשר קפוא - meat that is frozen for shipping before it is kashered

מצוות התליות בארץ

• This branch deals with matters of agronomy.
• it stops fruit from ערלה trees from entering the market  
• Separating תרומה ומעשר from produce that is being se
• In charge of the packaging and warehousing of produce; wineries and mills
• and, of course, it is concerned for any שמיטה issues

תעשיה

• all factories

יבוא - Import

• all food the comes from חו"ל
• either complete foods or ingredients
• it is understood that there are different standards in every place and supe
• There are people that travel around the world to supervise food production

בתי אוכל

• Restaurants, stores that sell ready made food, catering places, hotels, an
• Traditionally, these are supervised by local משגיחים
• Public institutions like hospitals are a separate category
• Guidelines need to be set for standard supervision.

Scandals

• RABBINATE MOVES TO TIGHTEN KOSHER SUPERVISION AFTER CRITICAL REPORT
• "After State comptroller Eliezer Goldberg described official kashrut... a t
• "central overseeing authority will be formed...
• by Erev R'h 2010 there still isn't equilibirum on these issues

רמת הכשרות

• Standard Kosher
• Mehadrin
• Private labels, בד"צ - they also have to have state supervision

Challenges With רבנות

• The mesorah of השגחה is that the local rabbinate is responsible for kashrut
• There are places where the rabbinate has local authority and is professiona
• Therefore, the concept of כשר בהכשר הרבנות המקומית is a relative term that
• Sometimes, there is a concern about one item from one place, and that can e

Improving Rabbinate

• The מחלקת כשרות can supervise the local authorities and instruct them on wh
• To establish clear national guidelines for how to give kosher certificati

What to do, practically?

• Check that Kosher certificate is valid and isn't a fake
• Kosher food in sealed containers do not have to buy from a place that has a
• Therefore , it is permissible to buy Coca-Cola product that kosher kiosk wi

שאולות

• מי אחראי לנושא הכשרות בארץ?
• מה הם תחומי האחריות או תחומי הפיקוח של הרבנות הראשית במזון?
• מה הם שתי דרגות הכשרות המקובלות?
• דוע אפשר לרכוש מזון באריזה סגורה גם ממקום שאין לו תעודת כשרות?
• א. מה הבעייתיות בהשגחת הרבנות ב. כיצד ניתן לשפר את האחידות בהשגחת הרבנות ?

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