{"id":5617,"date":"2011-03-04T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2021-03-22T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T08:32:58","slug":"04-10-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/04-10-07\/","title":{"rendered":"07.\u00a0What Determines the Type of Hagala<\/strong>: Main Use or Most Intense Absorption?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often, the same kli <\/strong>is used at different levels of severity. How is such a kli <\/strong>kashered? Some are stringent, maintaining that every kli <\/strong>must be kashered based upon its most intense usage, so if it was once used in fire, even though it is normally used in boiling water, it must be kashered by means of libun<\/strong>. Likewise, a kli <\/strong>that was once used with boiling water but is normally used with cold water must undergo hagala<\/strong>, for otherwise the kli<\/strong> will be kashered based on majority usage, not based on most intense usage (She\u2019iltot<\/strong>, Raavyah, Mordechai<\/strong>, Issur Ve-hetter Ha-arokh<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

In contrast, many authorities are lenient and maintain that the requirement to kasher depends on how that kli<\/strong> is used. Therefore, if it is normally used in boiling water, but occasionally used on a flame, it is kashered by means of hagala<\/strong>. If it is normally used with cold water but occasionally used with boiling water, it is kashered by means of rinsing (Rabbeinu Tam, Ramban, Rashba, Ran, SA 451:6). At first glance, this is problematic: How can kashering a kli<\/strong> based on its majority usage eliminate the flavor it absorbed during its more intense usage? The answer is that after 24 hours, flavors absorbed into and stuck to kelim <\/strong>become foul, and they consequently can no longer render forbidden foods that come into contact with them (as will be explained in the next section). Therefore, the requirement of kashering is based on the kli<\/strong>\u2019s majority use (Rashba, Rama Mi-Fano).<\/p>\n

In practice, the custom le-khat\u1e25ila <\/strong>is to be stringent and to kasher every kli<\/strong> according to its most intense usage. Under extenuating circumstances, we are lenient and kasher it according to its primary use. When there is concern that kashering it based on its most intense use will ruin the kli<\/strong>, for example, in the case of a kli<\/strong> that is used in fire in a minority of its usages, and which is likely to be damaged by libun<\/strong>, one may kasher it le-khat\u1e25ila <\/strong>by means of hagala<\/strong>, in accordance with its primary use.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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\n[5]<\/a>. The rationale of those who adopt the stringent view is obvious: Since the kli<\/strong> once absorbed through more intense usage, it must be kashered accordingly. This is the view of She\u2019iltot, <\/strong>Raavyah, Mordechai<\/strong>, Hagahot Maimoniyot<\/strong>, Terumat Ha-deshen<\/strong>, Issur Ve-hetter Ha-arokh<\/strong>, and Maharil. On the other hand, the Talmud implies that we follow the kli<\/strong>\u2019s majority usage, so cups that are usually used for cold are kashered by means of rinsing (Avoda Zara <\/strong>75b), even though they are occasionally used for hot. Knives that are usually used with boiling water are kashered by means of hagala<\/strong> (Pesa\u1e25im<\/strong> 30b) even though they are occasionally used to slice meat that is on the fire. This is the view of Rabbeinu Tam, Ramban, Rashba, Ra\u2019ah, and Ran. Likewise, many infer that this is the view of Rif and Rambam, as cited in Beit Yosef <\/strong>451:6. This dispute pertains to kashering kelim<\/strong> that absorbed prohibited foods as well.<\/p>\n

In practice, SA 451:6, 25, rules in accordance with the lenient view. According to Rema the custom is to be stringent and kasher the kelim<\/strong> according to their more intense usage, but we are lenient be-di\u2019avad<\/strong>. According to SAH 451:27-28, such kelim <\/strong>should not be used on Pesa\u1e25. Only be-di\u2019avad<\/strong>, if they were used after being kashered according to majority usage, the food is kosher. However, it seems from SHT ad loc. <\/strong>144 that one may kasher a kli<\/strong> according to majority usage when it is difficult to kasher it according to its more intense use. Additionally, if kashering it according to its more intense use might damage the kli<\/strong>, according to Beit Meir ad loc. <\/strong>11 (cited in SHT 51) one may kasher it according to its majority use.<\/p>\n

Many Sephardic poskim<\/strong> wrote that we follow the majority usage (SA 451:6; Rama Mi-Fano; Gan Ha-melekh<\/strong>; Pe\u2019ulat Tzadik<\/strong>; Ziv\u1e25ei Tzedek<\/strong>, R. Yosef Messas, Yabi\u2019a Omer <\/strong>10, YD 58; Or Le-Tziyon <\/strong>3:10:10-11). However, several Sephardic poskim<\/strong> wrote that le-khat\u1e25ila<\/strong> the practice is to be stringent according to the most intense usage (Knesset Ha-gedola<\/strong>; Shul\u1e25an Gavo\u2019ah<\/strong>; Kaf<\/strong> Ha-\u1e25ayim<\/strong> 451:100; R. \u1e24ayim David Ha-Levi\u2019s Mekor \u1e24ayim<\/strong> 186:6). SA 451:20 also states that the custom is to kasher tables by means of irui<\/strong>, in accordance with the more intense usage. Since we find some Sephardic poskim<\/strong> who ruled that one should be stringent le-khat\u1e25ila<\/strong>, and many Ashkenazic poskim<\/strong> ruled that one may be lenient when necessary, in order to minimize the differences, I wrote that we follow the stringent view le-khat\u1e25ila<\/strong> and that we are lenient when necessary. Therefore, forks that are sometimes used in fire should be kashered by means of hagala<\/strong>, since they can be damaged by libun<\/strong>. There is an additional reason to be lenient and require only hagala <\/strong>\u2013 the fork that was used in the fire is batel <\/strong>in the majority of forks that were not.<\/p>\n

Several A\u1e25aronim wrote that we determine majority and minority usage based only on use with \u1e25ametz <\/strong>that requires kashering; a kli<\/strong> that is primarily used for cold food that is not \u1e25ametz <\/strong>but was once used for \u1e25ametz <\/strong>in boiling water must undergo hagala<\/strong>. However, if most of the \u1e25ametz <\/strong>usage was cold, as in the case of a table or countertop, even though it was occasionally used with hot \u1e25ametz<\/strong>, it can be kashered with cold water, in accordance with its majority usage. So state Pri Megadim<\/strong> YD 91, Siftei Da\u2019at<\/strong> 3; Beit Efrayim<\/strong> \u1e24M 17; \u1e24azon Ish <\/strong>O\u1e24 119:15; Shevet Ha-Levi <\/strong>6:116:3 (and in R. B. Frankel\u2019s notes to \u00a791, he is lenient and maintains that majority use is determined by all usage, including permitted use).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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