The Kosher Chinese Food Thread - Page 4

My god. This is as bad as the President of CFA! Thanks for the quick answer though. I really did not have any idea.

on the books - you can't drink wine that has been consecrated to a pagan god, which is understood to be used in any relgious ceromony.

I'll tell you my take on this - it keeps people from becoming too friendly. you can't intermarry if you can't drink each other's wine

Thanks for the responses. Must a restaurant that claims to be kosher have a rabbi on staff supervising food preparation?

fucking blondie and devo are having a concert in Chicago on yom kippur. I might not be very religious, but I don't think I can pull that one off.

i would love to have a chavrusah shaft with you. we should make that happen. finishing shas biyun would be quite the accomplishment.

As dopey and Stitches might have been timed out by the sun going down I'll attempt an answer. They can have a rabbi or they can have a mashgiach that works under a rabbi's hechsher. A mashgiach is a person trained in the ways of kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. I always think of the rabbi as a doctor and the mashgiach as a nurse practitioner.

lol. +1 to dopey btw. also, it is a rabbinic decree, not a torah prohibition.

not only is it your take, it is in fact an explicitly stated reason behind the decree. you are sage GT, a sage indeed.

yes, either on staff, or with the ability to walk in at any given moment. but generally on staff.

i am glad to hear that. that would be a bit OTT, even for you and your tisha bav practices. no judgement. just messin.

Can't a mashgiach do it?

oops, also this. a masgiach is not only fine, it is more common for an eatery to use a misgiach that is under the auspices of a rabbi. most rabbis do not have time to do it, as it is essentially a full time job being a rabbi, at least a pulpit rabbi.

im out ya'll. piob, its all you for about 25 hours. good luck.

see above.

ok, so years ago I took a course with a bunch of people who ran small factories in israel . one of the guys was the owner of a meat factory. one day we each talked about the problems that we had that were specific to us.

so he told a story " I have to get my meat inside city limits by 8 before trafic starts, so I need to load the trucks by 7. we start killing at 3, 12 slaugherers and 12 mashgicheem. then, every few minutes a mashgiach tells his slaughterer to stop because the knife is too dull, so I go over and give them each 50 sheckels, and they start again. this goes on for hours, until each team gets a few 50 sheckel notes"

I would go if I didn't hate Devo so much.