Cooking Food and Keeping Shabbos

Question

Is it okay to eat food cooked by someone who doesn’t publicly keep Shabbos or Yom Tov, even during the week?

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    Your question revolves around the Halachic concept that someone who desecrates Shabbos in a public way is possibly regarded like a non-Jew when it comes to Kashrus in food-related questions. The majority of the authorities are of the opinion that it is best not to rely on them and not to eat the food they have prepared. However, it is permissible to eat the food if the person who already prepared it would be embarrassed to desecrate Shabbos in front of a Rabbi.

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