Friday, April 27, 2018

Lakewood New homes- IS YOU MICRO-WAVE OVEN "TREIF"??



It's the common practice for laborers, contractors when building or renovating a home to use the homes Micro-wave to heat their personal "TREIF" food. Even when it's brand new.

Have your attorney put into the contract "all equipment must be in unused condition at the closing".

You may be able to get the builder or contractor [ in a Din-Torah] to replace it with a new one.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Lakewood Bnei Torah- Re: Kashrus- Time to wake up and smell the coffee- (ess shtinkt fun kup)


From an Email
In other words, every agency, organization, and individual out there giving hashgacha should be doing a proper job. Unfortunately, many are not, even to the point that one cannot eat at establishments that they certify or eat the products that they certify unless the kashrus system is independently verified.

Ubiquitous underperformance, even in bastions of holiness, does not make it more acceptable to do a sub-standard job, but it allows us to be more kind in considering that a deficient agency, organization, or individual is not a standout, but one of many.

The reasons vary: lack of expertise in kashrus systems, lack of management skills, lack of budget, lack of the community’s willingness to properly fund a top-notch, or even Halachically acceptable, kashrus program, misplaced compassion towards unqualified staff, turf wars, negligence, and sometimes even avarice and lack of yir’as Shamayim. But the consequences are the same: a community unknowingly eats that which is Halachically prohibited, and the knowing of the community are left with no good options and are frowned upon by the unknowing.

May Hashem protect all His children and grant us all to eat properly kosher food.
Kol Tov,

GH: You seem to always equate chassidsheh hecshseirim with the term “gold standard”. Maybe to you they are, but not to everyone else. I do not trust a product or establishment anymore because it has both the OU and a chasidesheh hechsher. If it only had the OU I would still trust it.

I have both a national and heimish hechsher on my place. The national one comes every month- the hemish one hasn’t come in well over a year and he has no idea what is even in my products. So, there are no rules but they definitely both have pros and cons.


Monday, April 16, 2018

סוף האמת לנצח

כתב הגאון רבי שמשון רפאל הירש זצ"ל (שמש מרפא עמ' ש')
"רק לשקר דרושים תומכים כדי להצליח...
האמת לעומת זאת, תמיד תנצח בסופו של דבר,
אפילו אם הדבר יקח זמן....
בסופו של דבר תשיג האמת את הכבוד והערכה,
אפילו של אלו שלא מוכנים לקבלה.
האמת היחידה שהלכה לאיבוד,
בלי כל אפשרות להחזירה,
היא אותה אמת שאין למחזיקיה האומץ לדבר בגילוי לב עבורה.
האמת לא הובסה מעולם מכל התנגדות,
היא הובסה רק כשחבריה היו מדי חלשים מלהגן עליה".