{"id":97946,"date":"2022-11-19T21:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=97946"},"modified":"2022-11-19T21:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:26:41","slug":"kosher-supervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/kosher-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosher Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kosher Supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One time, our family was making a <em>simchah<\/em>. We hired a religious Jewish woman to bake the cakes in our home. We also hired a <em>mashgiach kashrut<\/em> to constantly watch that the baking was done according to halachah.<\/p>\n<p>However, when we brought the cakes to the hall, the owners did not rely on our personal <em>mashgiach<\/em>. They insisted on a <em>kashrut<\/em> symbol from one of the well-known establishments.<\/p>\n<p>A man sidled up to me and whispered in my ear, \u201cHonored Rav, have no fear. Within a short while, I\u2019ll get you the certificate and the <em>kashrut <\/em>symbol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some time, this man returned with ten different <em>kashrut<\/em> certificates, as well as their symbols, containing the names of various <em>mashgichim<\/em>. I shrank away, as if bitten by a snake, realizing that they were all forgeries. \u201cThis is forbidden! How can you expect me to accept this?! I certainly vouch for the <em>kashrut<\/em> of the cakes, but these specific <em>mashgichim<\/em> did not supervise their baking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, we did not make use of the certificates. After some investigating, we discovered that one of the clerks in the Beit Din was responsible for the forgeries. He is not a Torah-observant Jew, and therefore felt no compunctions in his act of falsehood.<\/p>\n<p><em>How afflicted is the world with falsehood and cheating! We must be vigilant to uphold the quality of truth. We must honestly resolve to keep away from stumbling in the snare of falsehood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosher Supervision One time, our family was making a simchah. We hired a religious Jewish woman to bake the cakes in our home. We also hired a mashgiach kashrut to constantly watch that the baking was done according to halachah. However, when we brought the cakes to the hall, the owners did not rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}