Always Kosher
All too often, when I ask people who come for a blessing if they are strict in kashrut observance, I hear, “In the house, but not outside.” I honestly wonder what they feel is the difference between sullying their soul inside the comforts of their home or doing it in an upscale restaurant. Does a person have one stomach for kosher food and another for non-kosher?!
There is no difference between eating treif food in one’s house to eating it outside the home. Both are equally forbidden. How can people have the audacity to ask for a blessing when they are full of forbidden foods? When I challenge people with these scathing questions, rebuking them for their duplicity, they realize where they are going wrong.
Baruch Hashem, many have merited repenting and preserve the mitzvah of kashrut outside their homes as well as within them.
