Sublime

Keeping these food laws is one part of what is referred to in Jewish culture as “keeping kosher.”

shortening, gelatin, and stearic acid, which could be derived from non-kosher animals or from dairy sources. That is why rabbinic supervision is

But Moshe had badly overestimated the organizational power of country Jewish rabbis, and most of the notices were lost in the ongoing rush of death notices, bar mitzvah commitments, once-in-a-lifetime sales, kosher cow-slaughtering requests, tallit-making services, business-dispute refereeing, mohel (circumcision) mix-ups, and marriage-arrangement

happens in our first example that making lemonade compliant with kosher laws doesn’t change the price by much—it is a matter of avoiding some standard additives.

Devarim 15:8. Kesubos 67b infers from the Hebrew phrase employed that the mitzvah of giving charity involves giving a person not merely enough to satisfy his basic necessities, but also enough to enable him to maintain

When Moshe scrutinizes the label of something I’ve bought and tells me he won’t eat it, I don’t consider it the one-upmanship of an adolescent. Instead, I am very proud of him, for he has done what we had hoped—he has taken the laws of kashrut as his own serious responsibility.

was not ritually slaughtered with the assumption that it was ritually slaughtered.69