22 Aug KASHRUS QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK WITH RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT

A pareve soup is made
with dairy utensils and a
dairy pot. It’s then warmed
up using a fleishig bowl
and a fleishig spoon. What’s the status?

The halacha is that it’s fine, but you shouldn’t do it. If you
prepared a parve vegetable soup in a milchig pot and
now you ate fleishig and you want to eat that soup, do
you have to wait 6 hours or not? The answer is, if the soup
is all pareve, even though it was made in a milchig pot, as
long as the milchig pot was clean, you can eat the soup
immediately after eating fleishig; you do not need to wait
6 hours. The example I always give for this question is if
someone cooked spaghetti in a clean milchig pot and
now they prepared meatballs for dinner, may you eat
that spaghetti together with the meatballs? The answer
is: No. May you eat the spaghetti immediately after the
meatballs? The answer is: Yes. It goes for cooking pareve
in a fleishig pot as well; you can’t eat it together with the
opposite, but you can eat it immediately after.
In terms of the question you asked, if you made the

parve soup in a milchig pot and warmed it in a fleishig
pot, it’s not something you should do, but nothing is
treif; you don’t have to kasher anything if you did it.

Bringing Keilim to a Mikvah-Which
Keilim need to be toiveled? Can I use a
Keili once or twice before bringing it to
a mikvah? Do aluminum pans need to
be brought to a mikvah?
All keilim that are used directly with food have to be
brought to the mikvah. That halacha applies to glass
and metal. Metal is deoraysa and glass is derabanan.
Earthenware does not have to be toiveled, but how
do we look at china? China itself is earthenware,
however it’s glazed and the glaze is glass. It’s a question
amongst poskim. Some poskim differentiate between
how glazed it is; if it’s more glazed, it needs tvila. My
personal opinion is that all china to some degree is
glazed and therefore should be brought to the mikvah
without a bracha.
There is no heter to use it once or twice before toiveling.

There’s no loophole that I can use it once or twice
without toveling it. In terms of disposable aluminum
pans, on one hand they’re made of metal and a vessel
made of metal needs to be toiveled. On the other hand,
one can make the argument that it’s truly disposable
and you’re only going to use it once and there’s no
obligation to take it to the mikvah. The question is that
many of us use disposable pans more than once so now
they’re not “disposable.” What’s the halacha then? There
are those that take it to the mikvah; most people as far
as I know do not because it was made to be disposable
and it can’t be used permanently.