Whole wheat flour- seperating Challah

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HAFRASHAS CHALLAH (SEPARATING CHALLAH) 

& WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR

 

Here are some important bullet points taken from this P’sak (halachic ruling) from our Rav Hamachshir, Harav Nusson N. Horowitz regarding the laws pertaining to being “Mafrish Challah” (Separating Challah) when using Kemach Whole Wheat Flour.

 

A special Thank You to Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Young for all the time and energy he put into researching the calculations and measurements that were used in this P’sak.

 

•    When in the process of milling whole wheat flour, the bran is removed from the flour and then mixed back, the halacha (in Shulchan Aruch) states that it no longer is counted towards the shiur (measurement) needed to be mafrish challah. Most manufactured whole wheat flour, and specifically Kemach Whole Wheat Flour is manufactured that way.

•    Based on this Halacha one must factor that (l’chumrah) up to 27% of the Kemach Whole Wheat Flour might be bran that was mixed back in.

•    It is important to note that this must be relied on only as a chumrah (stringency) and not a Kullah (leniency), i.e. one may not make a Brocho on hafrashas challah without factoring in the extra 27%. However, when taking challah on smaller amounts of flour upon which a brocho is anyway not said, the 27% is not a determining factor if hafroshas challah is needed at all.

•    PRACTICAL MEASUREMENTS (adding 27% by weight and proportionately by volume)

o When measuring by weight we need to multiply by 1.37. For example, one’s Rov holds that one should make the brocho on hafroshas challah only if the amount of white flour in the dough is at least 5 pounds. Multiplying 5 by 1.37 comes to 6.85. Accordingly, the amount of Kemach Whole Wheat Flour one needs to use in order to make a brocho would be almost 7 lbs. (More precisely, 6.85 lbs. which is 6 lbs. and 13.6 oz.).

o When measuring by volume we need to multiply by 1.52. For example, one’s Rov holds that one should make the brocho on hafroshas challah only if the amount of white flour in the dough is at least 18 cups (for less than 18 cups but at least 9 cups one should take challah but without a brocho). Multiplying 18 by 1.52 comes to about 27.5. Accordingly, the amount of Kemach Whole Wheat Flour one needs to use in order to make a brocho would be 27.5 cups.

o However, if as stated above, one uses less than 18 cups but at least 9 cups (e.g. 10 cups of flour), one should not multiply by 1.52. Instead in this case he should take challah from the 10-cup dough, but without a brocho.

Please note that all of the above is only applicable to Kemach Whole Wheat Flour. (Other companies might not remove and mix back in the bran, and/or might have different percentages).

אם ראית דור שצרות רבות באות עליו - צא ובדוק בדייני ישראל. שכל פורענות שבאה לעולם לא באה אלא בשביל דייני ישראל, שבת קל"ט - א

תלמוד בבלי מסכת שבת דף קלט עמוד א

תניא, רבי יוסי בן אלישע אומר

 אם ראית דור שצרות רבות באות עליו - צא ובדוק בדייני ישראל. שכל פורענות שבאה לעולם לא באה אלא בשביל דייני ישראל,

שנאמר שמעו נא זאת ראשי בית יעקב וקציני בית ישראל המתעבים משפט ואת כל הישרה יעקשו בנה ציון בדמים וירושלים בעולה ראשיה בשחד ישפטו וכהניה במחיר יורו ונביאיה בכסף יקסמו ועל ה' ישענו וגו' רשעים הן, אלא שתלו בטחונם במי שאמר והיה העולם. 

לפיכך מביא הקדוש ברוך הוא עליהן שלש פורעניות כנגד שלש עבירות שבידם. שנאמר לכן בגללכם ציון שדה תחרש וירושלים עיין תהיה והר הבית לבמות יער. 

ואין הקדוש ברוך הוא משרה שכינתו על ישראל עד שיכלו שופטים ושוטרים רעים מישראל, 

שנאמר ואשיבה ידי עליך ואצרף כבר סגיך, ואסירה כל בדיליך ואשיבה שפטיך כבראשונה ויעציך כבתחלה וגו'.

After a Bankruptcy, it's common to change the name, Why did KCL change their name, still without any basic kashrus reliability

 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 under-performance, 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.

The following article appeared in the past in KASHRUS Magazine (reprinted with some clarification.)

Catering Standards Questioned? Invited to an affair under the supervision of a Lakewood's yeshiva [ KCL] established  “Hashgocha” , but which was being held in a non-kosher facility, we went into the kitchen to look around and to compare notes with the Mashgiach. we were not prepared for what we found.

[ for copy of article- kashrusy@aol.com (subject line KCL article)]

Raw Chick peas / Garbanzo beans /Arbas- High quality

Alert! Gefen raw Chick Peas being recalled  to infestation issues.

 

The Brisker Rov zt’l famously stated;

One of the main functions of a Rabbi is to advocate for and support the "weakest" members of his community, “to give a voice to the voiceless”.

He said; Gehenim is big enough to hold the whole varsha.

RE: Bais Yosef invalid Bais Din Hazmonahs and Siruvim

 The Bais Yosef Bais Din's summonses and excommunications are hereby declared invalid.
Ownership of the Bais Yosef institutions and affiliates, situated in Brooklyn, vests exclusively with Rav Joffen. He has conferred a Power of Attorney upon Reb. Yehuda Shain, based in Lakewood, New Jersey, for all matters concerning the Bais Yosef Bais Din.

Reb Yehuda Shain has been contacted by certain parties in relation to the summonses and excommunications recently issued. He has clarified that he did not authorize any operational activities of the Bais Yosef Bais Din; in fact, he has explicitly directed the cessation of its operations.

A formal communication will be disseminated to the concerned parties within the forthcoming days to affirm this directive.

 

 Europe died at Auschwitz!

Who or what really died at Auschwitz? Here's an interesting viewpoint.

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Villar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.

I walked down the streets in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz !! We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims in the past 4 decades !!.

In Auschwitz, we burned a group of people who represented culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who made great contributions to the world, and thus changed the world .

The contribution of today’s Jewish people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. Look at any donors’ board at any symphony, art museum, theatre, art gallery, science Center, etc. You will see many, many, Jewish surnames. These are the people who were burned. Of the 6,000,000 who died, how many would have grown up to be gifted musicians, doctors, artists, philanthropists?

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the diseases of racism and bigotry, Europe opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride .

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free money from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts .

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe .

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it. .

It is now approximately seventy years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth* ,' it is imperative to make sure the world "never forgets."

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States? If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran, Iraq or some other Muslim country.

We must wake up America, England, Australia & Europe before it's too late !!."

 If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools ”.

Please do not just delete this message; It will take only a minute to pass this along.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world. Dusiznies Copyright 2010. .

Alert: In order to determine if a baby is yellow, and the Bris is to postponed, is decided only by the experienced Mohel, not by the "Count".

 According to Reb Yaakov Kamenetzky and Rav Sheinberg, 

"Al pi Mesorah", the Mohels observation is the deciding 

factor, not the doctors lab results of "the count"

Say thilim for the following people

 

Did you know?

 Hisachdus of Brooklyn Hashgocha allows Shmitah wine if it’s יובל נכרי.

They write a disclaimer on their Hashgocha certification.

“we are not certifying the drinks at the affair”,

including any other wines that they don't approve.

It does go into their utensils, then all of the leftover wine  goes into the kitchen, and they use in in the food being cooked in the caterers kitchen.

Is this only in Lakewood affairs? we doubt it.

OU Pas Yisroel

 https://oukosher.org/blog/kosher-professionals/creating-pas-yisroel/

https://oukosher.org/blog/articles/pas-yisroel-list/

 

ALERT: Brown eggs have a lot of blood spots- 50% are with blood spots

 

מאוד הזהר מ'הצבועים- be aware of the Secular Chareidim! Many have been outed already- The Orthodox clad, Atheists, have yet to be outed

 In general, The Secular Chareidim used to migrate to the Five Towns, but stayed in the closet.

Then some started migrating to Monsey and Lakewood etc, and coming out of the closet.

Lately many have migrated to Toms River, New Jersey. 

Be aware of the above.

The Orthodox Atheists, are still in the closet, they must be outed as well.

RE: Get refusers Agunas

 

Alert: All Nori sheets used for Sushi are "all" infested with "copepods" [including the ones w/ hashgochas] The Volover is only checking for sea-horses, not copepds

Mother lost all her limbs from bacterial infection after eating under-cooked Fish- https://dusiznies.blogspot.com/2023/09/mother-looses-all-her-limbs-from.html.

Use rice-paper or soy sheets.

Timely article on the current DAF

 Sept. 10, 2023

Today's Daf, Shidduch Crisis and Moshiach

Today, like every day, tens of thousands will pore over their Gemara or listen to shiurim on the daily Daf. Today however, they will see a key to change which would better so many lives, in this world and the next. Many will see it, but unfortunately not very many will act on it. This Gemara is no secret, and has been seen by young and old for centuries, but in recent years it seems to have been overlooked.

רב הונא לטעמיה דאמר: בן עשרים שנה ולא נשא אשה – כל ימיו בעבירה. בעבירה סלקא דעתך?! אלא

אימא: כל ימיו בהרהור עבירה. אמר רבא, וכן תנא דבי רבי ישמעאל: עד עשרים שנה יושב הקדוש ברוך הוא ומצפה לאדם מתי ישא אשה, כיון שהגיע עשרים ולא נשא, אומר: תיפח עצמותיו

Rav Huna taught that one who is not married by the time he is 20, will live his entire life with sinful thoughts. Rava, as well as Rebbi Yishmael, taught that Hashem Himself waits for one to get married. When he reaches 20 and hasn’t attempted to get married, Hashem says “May his bones swell” (A curse reserved only for those who postpone marriage or for those who deny ).תחיית המתים

This Gemara seems to be overlooked because the Gemara before discusses one who is preoccupied learning Torah and wouldn’t be able to continue his studies after marriage. He therefore is exempt (according to some interpretations) from the age limit of 20. One may think this exempts all Yeshiva students, but the truth is that this exemption only applies to someone who need not be concerned with illicit thoughts. It is for someone on a level higher than almost any of our day bachurim. The average, and even the best of our boys cannot vouch on themselves that they have total control over their Yetzer hora.

This exemption also doesn’t apply to anyone who is going to Kollel or whose wife, parents, or in-laws will support them after marriage. (According to R’ Moshe Feinstein, it doesn’t apply unless one won’t be able to learn Torah even during his set time to learn because of the stresses of work. If however he could set aside some time to learn properly, he wouldn’t be exempt from getting married at this age.)

For all practical purposes, for almost all young men, the correct age for marriage is before they reach 20. This Halacha is codified by the Rambam, Tur, Shulchan Aruch, and accepted by all halachic authorities of all times. This includes the Chafetz Chaim, Aruch Hashulchan, Chazon Ish, R’ Moshe Feinstein and so on.

The connection to the shidduch crisis is quite obvious. If boys were to get married younger the age gap wouldn’t be there. Even if this would cause more boys than girls according to statistics, we should much rather have a “crisis” caused by Hashem and not one which we made ourselves. In the former we can rely on Him, but in the later He relies on us to mend our ways.

But where does Moshiach come in? The Gemara (Niddah 13b) says that one who marries a young girl who is not old enough to bear children delays the coming of Moshiach. This is because Moshiach will only come when all the Neshamos that need to come to this world have already been born. By delaying marriage we are delaying generations from being born which in turn delays the coming of Moshiach.

As the Yom Hadin approaches, perhaps as a people we could aim to get closer to the age Hashem required us to get married. Many projects have been aimed at lowering the age of our boys, but none of them seemed to garner enough steam. Perhaps the only way to achieve this goal is not by throwing money at the problem, or convincing people to do it for the sake of fixing a crisis. We need to simply realize how detrimental it is for young men to not be in a marriage at this age. They will inevitably deteriorate spiritually and suffer with sinful thoughts for the rest of their life.

The Mahrsha comments on today's Gemara that one who isn’t married by 20 gets the not-so honorable title of .רשעThe Medrash in Koheles says that those that delay marriage are worthy of .מיתה בידי שמים

This is a serious issue, and before the Yom Hadin it is worth examining.

נחפשה דרכינו ונחקרה ונשובה עד ה'

Everyone has challenges, and don't have everything they need, do the best with what you "do" have!

 

Shocking- At a Bris, some kids took a substantial number of Donuts, when asked "so many donuts"?, yes we sell in school for $1.50 Each

 

Empirio Shatnez De Ja Vu

 

י"ז מנחם אב תשפ"ג Shatnez Notice Emporio Emporio Clothing is a Jewish-owned Men's clothing store with branches in Jewish neighborhoods in the Tri-state area. Unfortunately, we are here to report yet another incident of shatnez in one of the suits manufactured by Emporio Clothing. After a qualified shatnez laboratory thoroughly tested the suit, it was deemed shatnez. Below is the picture of the brand label Vertu and the scrap reinforcement of wool and linen discovered in the suit. As with any store, one cannot rely on Emporio's salespeople who may claim that its garments are shatnez free, i.e., shatnez testing at a qualified shatnez laboratory is required on ALL suits purchased at Emporio. Please publicize. ועד למשמרת שעטנז Vaad L'Mishmeres Shatnez Lakewood, New Jersey 08701    1-877-4-SHATNEZ United States of America