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Hi - I’m slowly increasing my level of observance and while we only buy kosher meat at home and separate milk and meat, we use the same dishes and buy foods with no hechsher. I just bought new dishes and thought I might use them strictly as my meat dishes but was wondering if I should toivel them if the foods that will be in them might not be kosher by all standards (foods prepped in my kitchen with pans and silverware that would not be considered kosher). Basically, should I toivel dishes if they won’t be used in the strictest kosher keeping kitchen?

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Can I take a supplement that has gelatin in the capsule and does not have a hechsher? There aren't other options with no gelatin for this specific supplement.

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Hi Rabbi - Does raw butter need to have a hechsher? The only ingredient it is made from is raw cream from cows milk - unpasteurized and straight from a farm. https://swrfmarket.com/products/raw-cow-unsalted-butter-1lb

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Do any poskim allow chitosan in wine because it is changed forms from the non kosher seafood and bittul

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Dear Rabbi. I have heard that clear glass plates can be used for both meat and dairy. However, can white stained plates also be used for both meat and dairy? For example these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R790CLY/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

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According to Halacha, is it permissible to make Orlah grapes into wine, lechatchila, In order to discard the wine and make cream of tartar (refining it and all) in the same way Stam yeinam wine can be made into cream of tartar

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We just purchased two presumably new, unused Mikasa Pottery Art dinner plates online. Do they need to be toevaled? Thank you, [Name Withheld] Phoenix AZ

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When you’re in a market/super market, and they have peeled or sliced fruits (such as mangos, peaches, kiwis, apples etc.) Is there a Chazaka they are kosher? Does it depend on if it’s in a non Jewish one in chutz laaretz or a non observant Jewish one like In Israel?

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Good day, Is non-mevushal wine to which sugar was added (such as Kedem's Cream Rose) subject to the laws of maga akum? Or not, as sugar is like honey, and then Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Daiah 123:4 would apply? In terms of chumros, what's better to make kiddush on: 1. Non-mevushal, sugar-added wine 2. Mevushal, no sugar added Thank you and kol tuv, Yaacov

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My neighbor across the hall is a single mother with an 11-year-old son. She is divorced from her son’s father and shares custody, but her son will be there this coming Shabbos. She invited me over for Shabbos lunch. Is an 11-year-old boy able to negate yichud?