taam

Question 1

בטל

Answer 1

Nullify

Question 2

טעם כעיקר

Answer 2

Taste is the main factor

Question 3

Why can’t a Jew taste a mixture of kosher and treif to detect the taste of treif food?

Answer 3

A jew can’t because if it turns out that it tastes treif it means he just ate treif food, which would be bad.

Question 4

Why can’t a non Jew taste the mixture of kosher and treif to detect the taste of treif food?

Answer 4

A non jew can’t be trusted to appreciate the importance of our not being able to eat it so he might not want to tell us we can’t eat it.

Question 5

What are the objective standards for bitul?

Answer 5

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Question 6

When do we apply בטל ברוב?

Answer 6

If the foods taste the same and appears indistinguishable and the majority of the mixture is kosher, you can eat it all. Also, note that this applies to heterogenous mixtures - not dissolves or cooked together.

Question 7

When do we apply בטל בששים?

Answer 7

Even if taste is distinguishable, no more than 1/60 of the mixture can be treif in order for it to be kosher. This applies to food combined with liquid or foods that are cooked together.

Question 8

What is the difference between Toveling and Kashering?

Answer 8

Toveling is before you use the dish when you are infusing the pot with spirituality and changing the spiritual status of the pot, so that we will be using our physical things for a higher spiritual purpose.
Kashering is when you are turning a pot that is not kosher into kosher so that you can use it for kosher food.

Question 9

If a non kosher pot is totally clean with no food residue on it, why can’t we automatically use it to cook kosher food?

Answer 9

It could be that there is non kosher food stuck within the walls, so if we cooked with it, the walls of the pot would expand and the nonkosher food would escape from the walls of the pot and get into our kosher food.

Question 10

Define נותן טעם לפגם:

Answer 10

Inedible

Question 11

Define נותן טעם לשבח:

Answer 11

Edible

Question 12

Look at the gemara in Avoda Zara on page 15.
Does Rabbi Meir permit נותן טעם לפגם ?
Explain the reason for his opinion using the pesukim in Bamidbar.

Answer 12

No, you have to kasher both.

Because the cohen gadol did not distinguish between them, so we shouldn’t either.

Question 13

What is Rabbi Shimon’s opinion regarding נותן טעם לפגם? Explain his reasoning using the pasuk in Devarim.

Answer 13

Lifgam is allowed
Lishvach is not
Because anything you would give to a non jew can’t be considered Nevela. You would only give something edible to a non jew so only edible things are considered edible to a non jew so only edible things are considered kosher or not kosher. Therefore you don’t have discussions about non edible things.

Question 14

Whose opinion to we follow?

Answer 14

R’ Shimon

Question 15

Based on the shulchan aruch on page 20:

Define a בן יומו:

Answer 15

A cleaned pot/kitchen utensil that has been used in the past 24 hours

Question 16

Define a שאינה בן יומו

Answer 16

A pot that has NOT been used within the past 24 hours

Question 17

Can a pot be a שאינה בן יומו if it isn’t clean?

Answer 17

No

Question 18

Why can we rely on נותן טעם לפגם if the pot is a שאינה בן יומו but not if it is a בן יומו?

Answer 18

Because after 24 hours the food/residue left in the pot isn’t edible anymore

Question 19

Based on the shulchan aruch on page 21, if I cooked macaroni and cheese in my meat pot, under what circumstances may I eat it?

Answer 19

If the meat pot was not used in the last 24 hours for cooking meat

Question 20

Based on the shulchan aruch on page 21, if I cooked macaroni and cheese in my meat pot, under what circumstances is it forbidden to eat?

Answer 20

If the meat pot was used in the last 24 hours for cooking meat

Question 21

What is the status of the pot after it has been used for both milk and meat?

Answer 21

Not Kosher

Question 22

If under certain circumstances I am allowed to eat dairy food that was cooked in a meat pot (or vice versa) why must I have two sets of pots?

Answer 22

Because we cannot rely on the ben yoma rule unless we used it by accident.

Question 23

According to the shulchan aruch on page 22 how, בדיעבד, can I avoid בשר בחלב mix ups when I am washing my dishes?

Answer 23

If there is soap the food becomes inedible, eliminating the issue of kosher/treif.