Halacha - 9th Grade #2

Question 1

True or false? A vessel shared with a non-Jewish person does not need to be טובלed

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What if you’re eating in someone’s house that’s kosher, but they didn’t טובל their dishes, could you eat from it?

Answer 2

If they put a glass bowl with fruit, you could eat it because you’re removing. But for a bowl of soup, you have to use a spoon, but they didn’t טובל it’s so you have to ask for a plastic one. if you ask for water and they put it in a glass, you can’t drink it because it’s like you asked them too, and it’s not טובלed. But if they give it to you without you asking, you could drink it.

Question 3

If food was cooked in a non-טובלed vessel, could you eat it? Is it kosher?

Answer 3

Yes, cuz you thought was toiveled but it wasn’t

Question 4

Could you eat the food with? טובלed cutlery?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What do you do if you buy a used vessel from a non-Jew?

Answer 5

You have to kasher it and toivel it. You are supposed to kasher it first because even if you toivel it, if it’s not —————— - ——————————————-.

Question 6

What is there is a label or price tag on the vessel?

Answer 6

You have to take it off and make sure there’s no sticky stuff left.

Question 7

What if you want the label on?

Answer 7

You can leave it on

Question 8

Why did the דרבנן require a bracha on glass?

Answer 8

Because glass is similar to metal – if it breaks, you could melt it and remake/reuse it.

Question 9

What if you’re holding the vessel when you טובל it in your hand is blocking it?

Answer 9

Either put it in a basket, or wet your hand.

Question 10

What about if slaughtering knife? Do you have to טובל it?

Answer 10

Since you’re not eating with it, because it’s very delicate and not used to cut regular food. Also because it’s raw, so it’s fine but one opinion says yes because it’s part of the eating process. Another opinion says no, because it’s too far in the beginning of the process, so it doesn’t matter.

Question 11

What do you always do if you’re not sure if you should טובל it or not?

Answer 11

You should טובל it without a bracha.

Question 12

Do you have to טובל metals that are not part of the big six?

Answer 12

Opinion number one:
The Torah gave six examples, but it’s talking about all metals so it doesn’t need to be טובלed.
Opinion number two:
It does not need to be טובלed because it’s not one of the six
Opinion number three:
You do have to טובל it because it’s מדרבנן because it’s not worse than glass.

Because 2/3 of people say that you have to type it, you should do it without a bracha.

Question 13

Can a non-Jewish person טובל the item?

Answer 13

Yes, If a Jew was watching

Question 14

What about a toaster oven?

Answer 14

You don’t have to put the whole thing in, cause only certain parts come in contact with the food. Basically only if it has a tray or rack that the food goes on you have to טובל it.

Question 15

What is the bracha?

Answer 15

……………….

Question 16

What about steel?

Answer 16

I comes from iron so you have to toivel it

Question 17

What about glass?

Answer 17

Glass needs to be toiveled miderabanan but these 6 things are deoyraysah

Question 18

What doesn’t need to be toiveled?

Answer 18

Plastic, ceramic, china

Question 19

Why not china?

Answer 19

Because it’s an earthen ware vessel so you don’t need to toiveled it

Question 20

What about glazed china that has a layer of glass on it?

Answer 20

Yes, because there is glass and food is coming in contact with it

Question 21

What are 4 types of vessels?

Answer 21

What you eat from: plates, bowls
What you eat with: utensils and cutlery
What you make food with: pot, pan
What you store food in: cookie jar, container/canister

Question 22

If it is something that you don’t eat from, do you have to toiveled it? (Like a salt shaker?)

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Do you need to toiveled it something that was made and sold by a Jew?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

If it was made y a goy but sold by a Jew, do you have to toiveled it it?

Answer 24

Yes, because a goy owned it at one point

Question 25

What about a can opener?

Answer 25

You don’t have to toiveled it because it is not meant to touch food and even if it does touch the food, it was accidental

Question 26

If you have specific chicken scissors, do you have to toiveled it it?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

If you use regualar scissors to cut the chicken, do you have to toiveled it it?

Answer 27

No, on,y if you keep those scissors to always use for that

Question 28

What about an electric Ern?

Answer 28

Yes, you have to make sure that it gets fully immersed with the toivel water. You don’t have to toivel the base because it’s not the part the food is in.

Question 30

What about a toaster?

Answer 30

Reb Moshe says that you don’t need to because it is only warming the food, it is not making it but most people say that it does make food especially if it is frozen so you have to toivel it

Question 31

3 ways to avoid toiveling vessels

Answer 31

1. Sneak out to the ocean and do it there 2. If you make a goy a partner in the vessel, then you don’t have to toivel it 3. You can get a Jew to break it, and then fix it because then he (a Jew)made it so you don’t have to toivel it

Question 32

If you need to kasher and toivel something, what do you do first?

Answer 32

You kasher it

Question 33

Can you toivel something on Shabbos?

Answer 33

No, not because of the carrying issue but because it’s like fixing it