Toiveling Dishes

Question

Dear Rabbi,
I am not orthodox. I affiliate with a conservative temple, but I attend only occasionally. I do not keep Shabbat. I keep some degree of kashrut in the home, but not anything that orthodox people will accept as kosher. And I eat out all the time at non-kosher restaurants. I have decided I want to start toveling my dishes. I have two questions about that.
1.) Does a Jew have to be fully observant in order for the toveling to be valid?
2.) Some of my dishes I have previously used and continue to with food that orthodox people don’t accept as kosher. If I brought those dishes to the mikvah, would it contaminate the mikvah for orthodox people?

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Answers

  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    1. No, a Jew does not have to be fully observant to toivel their dishes. However, it is true that there is a certain paradox with toiveling dishes and eating non-Kosher food off of them.

    2. There is no concern that your dishes will “contaminate” the Mikveh or the dishes of the other people who come to use it.

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