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While cutting a watermelon, one may remove the seeds by shaking out each slice. Any seeds that remain may be removed by hand or with a knife, because that is the normal way to eat watermelon. This is on condition that it is done for immediate consumption. Le-khat\u0125ila<\/em> one should remove the seeds with some type of shinui<\/em> (Ben Ish<\/em> \u0124ai<\/em>, Year 2, Beshala\u0125 7). Some are stringent and require that one place the piece of watermelon into one\u2019s mouth and remove the seeds from there (\u0124azon Ish<\/em> 54:1), but in practice most poskim<\/em> maintain that the seeds may be removed before the watermelon is placed into the mouth, because that is the normal way of eating.[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

If a fruit bowl contains a mix of good fruit and fruit that has begun to rot, one may remove all of the fruit that one wishes to eat or to serve guests at the upcoming meal (MB 319:7). If he does not intend to eat all the good fruit now, but is worried that the rotten fruit will cause the good fruit in the bowl to rot, he can spread out all the fruits so that they are no longer touching one another, but he may not separate the good fruit and bad fruit into separate piles.<\/p>\n

When dealing with a partially rotten fruit, the point where the rotten part touches the good part is considered a mixture. Therefore, cutting off the rotten bit is forbidden, because that would constitute removing psolet<\/em> from okhel<\/em>. The solution is to cut out some of the good part together with the rotten part.<\/p>\n

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[11]<\/a>.Kaf Ha-\u1e25ayim 319:47 and Yalkut Yosef 319:63 are lenient, following Ben Ish \u1e24ai. Igrot Moshe O\u1e24 4:74, Borer 7 is lenient when one does not have another option and for feeding a baby. SSK 3:17 cites both opinions and adds that one who is lenient and removes the seeds before eating has an opinion on which to rely. In n. 34, SSK states that R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach is lenient because this is the way in which the watermelon is eaten. He points out that this case is less problematic than removing bones from fish. This is because it is possible to remove a bone together with some fish, put the combination into one\u2019s mouth, eat the fish, and throw out the bone. In contrast, this cannot be done with watermelon seeds. The many poskim who permit removing fish bones before eating the fish would certainly be lenient regarding removing watermelon seeds before eating the watermelon.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While cutting a watermelon, one may remove the seeds by shaking out each slice. Any seeds that remain may be removed by hand or with a knife, because that is the normal way to eat watermelon. This is on condition that it is done for immediate consumption. Le-khat\u0125ila one should remove the seeds with some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-11"],"yoast_head":"\n10. 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