9 Lessons

Tevila of Something that Turns into a “Meal Utensil”
I received an ornamental honey dispenser and glass plate. I want to use the plate every Shabbat to hold challa rolls for lechem mishneh. Does it require tevilat keilim, assuming that it was made by a non-Jew(ish company)?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 25 5782

Is a Difficult to Remove Residue a Chatzitza?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 11 5782

Salad at Meat and Milk Meals
Sometimes I serve the same salad at a fleishig meal and again at a milchig meal. My daughter told me that her friend’s family does not do that. Is it okay?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 8 5780

Toveling which Utensil First
I made a beracha before toveling several utensils, primarily glass, which I started with. Then I noticed that one of the utensils was metal. Since toveling metal is a Torah obligation and for glass it is Rabbinic, could the beracha on the glass utensil count for metal? Should I have made another beracha on the metal utensil?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 5 5779

Products Containing Minute Quantities of Non-Kosher Food
I want to use a homeopathic allergy medicine that contains some apis mellifica, which is trace quantities of crushed honeybee. Is this permitted?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Sivan 1 5776

Kashering Frozen Liver
If a piece of liver was frozen for weeks, can it be cooked and roasted?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Iyar 17 5776

Timtum Halev – Part I
Is there timtum halev [approximately, spiritual pollution of the heart] when one ingests non-kosher food in a halachically valid manner, e.g., based on bitul (nullification)?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Adar I 1 5776

Working in a Non-Kosher Establishment
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Sivan 14 5775
