Torah Rocket Conversion
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PART 1 OF 18 • 38 OFFICIAL QUESTIONS
Kosher / Kashrut
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Official questions
1. a) What is the meaning of the term “Kosher”?
b) What is Glatt Kosher?
Your study note: Kosher — meaning proper. Glatt Kosher — a higher level of kosher with no question about the animal.
Simple explanation: Remember the basic meaning first: kosher means proper or fit. Your note describes Glatt as a stricter level concerning the animal.
KosherproperGlatthigher level
2. a) Which signs do kosher fish display?
b) Which signs do kosher mammals display?
Your study note: Kosher fish — scales and fins. Kosher animal — split hoof and chews the cud.
Simple explanation: Fish: remember two signs. Mammals: remember two signs.
fishscalesfinsmammalsplit hoofchews cud
3. Name a few animals a Jew is forbidden to eat:
a) On land
b) On sea
Your study note: Prohibited on land / sea — rabbit, snake, pig / eel, oysters, shrimp.
landrabbitsnakepigseaeeloystersshrimp
4. Under what circumstances can one buy fish at a non-kosher fish store?
Your study note: Whole fish — okay with scales and fins. If it needs to be cleaned, bring your own knife.
whole fishscales + finsown knife
5. Which insects, if any, is a Jew allowed to eat?
Your study note: Kosher insects to eat — types of grasshoppers; the traditions were lost.
grasshopperstradition
6. Which product of insects is a Jew allowed to eat?
Your study note: Honey — it comes from flower nectar/pollen collected and chemically changed by enzymes. Royal jelly is not allowed, as it is made from the body of the queen bee.
honeynectarenzymesroyal jelly — no
7. What is the term applied to all foods that are not kosher?
Your study note: Treif.
not kosherTreif
8. Why must animals be ritually slaughtered?
Your study note: Because it is a commandment.
ritual slaughtercommandment
9. Describe how the process of Jewish ritual slaughter is done.
Your study note: Five points: 1) continuous motion, 2) no nicks — smooth knife, 3) no pressure, 4) exposed all the time — shave all wool first, 5) specific place on the neck.
continuoussmooth knifeno pressureexposedneck
10. Which animals and birds require ritual slaughter (Shechita)?
Your study note: Cattle — cows, sheep, goats; deer, bison, buffalo, moose; chicken, turkey, ducks, pigeons/doves, geese.
cattledeer/bison/buffalo/moosepoultry
11. Where will you buy your meat?
Your study note: A kosher store with an up-to-date Ontario sign/certification such as COR or MK.
kosher storecurrent certificateCOR / MK
12. How is meat made kosher?
Your study note: Melichah: 1) soak in water for ½ hour, 2) salt for 1 hour, 3) rinse with water 3 times.
soak ½ hsalt 1 hrinse ×3
13. What is the only proper method of koshering liver and why?
Your study note: Roast it on a grill, or something with holes, so the blood drips out and it does not sit in the blood. Why: because the liver is full of blood and other ways cannot take it out.
livergrillblood drips
14. Can we consume the blood of an animal?
Your study note: No.
15. What is the maximum amount of time permissible after slaughtering before meat can no longer be soaked and salted?
Your study note: 72 hours.
72 hours
16. What is the general rule regarding a drop of blood in eggs?
Your study note: The whole egg is no good, because it is the beginning of a chicken growing, in the case that the egg was fertilized.
blood spotwhole egg
17. What do you do when eating out in order to keep Kashrut?
Your study note: Make sure a kosher restaurant has a certificate with a valid date. Vegetarian places should normally be avoided because they may not check for bugs.
valid certificatecheck datebugs
18. How do you keep your kitchen kosher?
Your study note: Two sinks for meat and milk, two burners for meat and milk and do not cook with the same sets, two sets of dishes for milk and meat; self-clean the oven between each use, or mainly use the oven for one and keep the other covered with a lid or aluminum.
2 sinks2 burners2 dish setsoven separation
19. a) What do you do with new dishes, utensils and silverware before you use them?
b) What blessing is made and on which items?
Your study note: Toiveling — immerse in a mikvah. The note says the blessing is on metal items; glass also needs immersion and glazed items are a question. Blessing: Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al tevilat keilim. Completely immerse the item, with water touching every surface inside and out in one go.
toivelmikvahtevilat keilimfull immersion
20. What do you do if you accidentally mix up dairy dishes, utensils or silverware with meat ones?
Your study note: Glass — no problem, just rinse. Metal — put in boiling water. Earthen vessels such as clay — not possible to fix.
glass rinsemetal boiling waterearthenware cannot fix
21. a) How long must one wait between eating dairy and meat?
b) Between eating meat and dairy?
Your study note: Meat and then dairy — 6 hours normally; German custom 3 hours and Dutch custom 1 hour. Dairy to meat — no wait; wash the mouth and eat pareve, unless it is hard cheese, which is treated like meat in the note.
meat → dairy 6 hdairy → meat no waithard cheese exception
22. a) List or draw some kosher symbols.
b) What do “D” and “P” stand for?
Your study note: COR, MK, OU, Star-K. D = Dairy. P = Pesach.
CORMKOUStar-KD DairyP Pesach
23. Why does cheese need a kosher symbol?
Your study note: Cheese needs a kosher symbol because rennet, an enzyme used to make cheese, must be checked to make sure it comes from a kosher animal.
cheeserennetkosher source
24. Name 2 products that require no kosher symbol.
Your study note: Salt and canned fruits.
saltcanned fruits
25. How can one use a dishwasher for both milk and meat?
Your study note: Separate trays, use at different times, with an empty cycle between each one.
separate traysdifferent timesempty cycle
26. How can one use a microwave oven for both milk and meat?
Your study note: Wipe it down, boil water in a Styrofoam cup, and wipe between milk and meat.
wipeboil waterwipe again
27. How can one use a conventional oven for both milk and meat?
Your study note: Use the oven self-clean between each, or use the oven mainly for one and keep the other covered with a lid or aluminum.
self-cleanmain usecover other
28. a) What is the meaning of the term Pareve?
b) Give some examples of Pareve foods.
Your study note: Pareve means neutral — no milk and no meat. Examples: beans, bread.
neutralno milkno meatbeansbread
29. a) When making bread, at what point should Challah be separated?
b) What quantity of dough becomes subject to separating Challah?
c) What do you do with the separated Challah?
Your study note: Separate when it is dough. The note gives 4.5 pounds of flour as the amount requiring separation. Burn the separated Challah, since the Kohanim are not pure to eat it, and say that this is Challah.
dough4.5 lb flourseparateburn
30. What do you have to pay attention to when you buy processed food, for example canned food?
Your study note: Processed food needs a hechsher.
processed foodhechsher
31. What is the difference between soft and hard cheese regarding the requirement to wait before eating meat?
Your study note: Hard cheese aged 6 months — wait 6 hours. Soft cheese — no problem; rinse and eat pareve before meat.
hard cheese 6 monthswait 6 hsoft cheese rinse
32. Why is a kosher sign needed on Israeli produce?
Your study note: Extra concerns: Orlah — no fruit or benefit from a tree during the first 3 years, in Israel or anywhere; Shemittah — the seventh year; and Terumah and Maaser — tithes and offerings for Kohanim and Levites.
OrlahShemittahTerumahMaaser
33. What is “non-kosher” wine and why mustn’t it be consumed according to Halachah?
Your study note: Kosher wine is supervised by a Jew; the note connects the restriction to concern about idol worship and social interaction.
wineJewish supervisionidol worshipsocial interaction
34. Which alcoholic beverages may a Jew consume regardless of who manufactured them?
Your study note: Strong alcohol — okay: whiskey, vodka, beer.
whiskeyvodkabeer
35. On which holiday are spirits distilled from grain forbidden?
Your study note: Pesach.
36. a) Define “Shemittah.”
b) What must we be careful of regarding its observance?
Your study note: Shemittah — the 7th year; do not collect grain or fruit or sell it, in Israel. The note also says unfinished produce is put in a special basket until it rots or given away, private loans between individuals are forgiven, and a pruzbul is a legal document transferring the debt to Beit Din so it is exempt from cancellation.
7th yearproduceloanspruzbulBeit Din
37. Can one eat food cooked by a non-Jew?
Your study note: The note gives exceptions: food not fit for a king, such as canned food or potatoes, or food that can be eaten raw. It also notes the need to consider knives/utensils, checked eggs, sifted flour, rice and lettuce checked for bugs, or supervision by a mashgiach.
not fit for kingeaten rawutensilsbug checkingmashgiach
38. What is the general rule regarding sharp foodstuffs, for example lemons, vinegar and onions?
Your study note: Sharp foods such as lemon, onion and garlic can transfer taste from a knife. If a lemon is cut with a meat knife, the note says the lemon becomes meat/fleishig. Sharp food used with dairy should not then be used for fleishig dishes, even within 24 hours.
sharp foodknifetaste transfermeat/dairy status