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Going Kosher
An easy, user friendly guide to keeping kosher
By
Rabbi Amiram Markel
Kosher Certification of America
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Part I. Why Go Kosher?
1) Testimonies, Statutes and Judgments.
2) Divine Universal Standards. –
Part II. What does Kosher Mean?
1) Fit, Proper and good.
2) Eating the Limb of a Living Animal –
3) The Seven Noachide Laws
4) Preventing Sadistic Tendencies
5) The Ultimate Purpose of Creation
Part III. What Makes It Kosher?
1) Kosher and Non-Kosher Animals
2) Kosher and Non-Kosher Fowl
3) Neveilah and Treifah
4) Kosher Slaughter
5) The Slaughtering Knife
6) General Rules of Kosher Slaughter
7) Draining of Blood
8) Post-Mortem Inspection
9) Disjointed or Broken Wings or bones
10) Eating Glatt Kosher Meat
11) Removal of Fats, Arteries and Veins
12) Kosher and Non-Kosher cuts of Meat
13) Procedure for Removal of Blood
14) Removing blood from liver
15) Soaking and salting within 72 hours and Problem of Frozen Meat
16) Separation of Meat and Milk
17) Reciting Blessing before Eating
18) Kosher and Non-Kosher Fish
19) Checking Eggs for Blood
Part IV. Preparing for Koshering
1) Setting up Your Kosher Kitchen
2) Seeking Expert Assistance
3) Assessing what may be Koshered
4) Step One-What may be Koshered
5) Step Two- Separating the Unkosherable
6) The Dishwashing Machine
7) The Toaster
8) The Toaster Oven
9) Dishes, Cups, Saucers and Glassware
10) Pot Lids and Handles
11) Blenders and Food Processors
12) Mixers
13) Step Three-Thoroughly cleaning Kitchen
Part V. Koshering the Kitchen
1) Methods of Koshering
2) Koshering an Oven
3) Koshering an Oven/Additional Method
4) Koshering a Microwave Oven
5) Koshering Dishwasher
6) Koshering Utensils
7) Koshering Countertops
8) Koshering the Sink
9) Cabinets and Refrigerators
10) Separation of meat and dairy utensils
Part VI. Immersing Vessels in a Mikvah
1) Immersing vessels in a Mikvah
2) Immersing Electrical Appliances
3) Performing the Immersion – p.129
Part VII. Separation of Meat and Milk
1) Torah Prohibitions
2) Rabbinical Prohibitions
3) Business dealings in Non-Kosher Food
4) Feeding Animals and Pets
5) Breast Milk
6) Marait Ayin-Giving Wrong Impression
7) Asking Non-Jew to cook Meat with Milk
8) Fish and Meat
9) Fish and Milk
10) Storing Meat with Milk
11) Meat and Milk on same Table
Part VIII. Problems and Solutions
1) Introduction
2) Some Common Problems
3) Salting is Equivalent to cooking
Part IX. Sharp Foods
1) The Unique Status of Sharp Food
2) Which Foods are considered to be Sharp
3) Avoiding problems cutting Sharp Food
4) Common problems in cutting Sharp foods
5) Cooking Sharp Food
Part X. Waiting from Meat to Dairy
1) Two Reasons for Waiting
2) Varying Traditions
3) How Long Should a Baal Teshuvah or Convert to Judaism wait between Meat and Milk?
4) Six Hours after eating Meat or Six hours after Reciting the After-Blessing?
5) Doubt whether Six Hours have elapsed
6) Chewing Meat without Swallowing
7) Meat Lodged between Teeth
8) Pareve Dish Cooked in Meat Pot
9) Dentures, False Teeth, Crowns etc.
10) Cooking next meal in the Six Hour Period
11) Waiting between Dairy and Meat
Part XI. Kosher Bread
1) Pat Yisroel-Jewish Bread
2) Pat Palter-Non-Jewish Bakery Bread
3) Dairy Bread and Meat Bread
Part XII. Separating Challah
1) The Laws of Challah
2) Blessing for Challah
2) Procedure for Separating the Challah
Part XIII. Bishul Yisroel-Cooked by a Jew
1) Food Cooked by a Non-Jew
2) Food Cooked by a Jew
3) Food that is Eaten Raw
4) Food Fit for a Royal Table
Part XIV. Cholov Yisroel-Jewish Milk
1) What milk is kosher?
2) Cholov Akum-Non-Jewish milk
3) Cholov Yisroel-Supervised milk
4) Cholov Stam-Plain milk
Part XV. Kosher Wines
1) The Prohibition
2) Boiled Wine
3) Pasteurized Wine
4) What constitutes handling by a non-Jew?
5) The Blessing for Wine
Part XVI. Bug and Larva Infestation
1) The Prohibition
2) Inspecting for Bugs
3) Recommended Methods for Checking
Part XVII. Dangerous Foods or Habits
1) The Prohibition
2) Fish and Meat
3) Fish and Milk
4) Disgusting Foods
5) Dangerous Foods or Habits
Part XVIII. Blessing When Eating
1) Categories of Blessings
2) The Order of the Blessings
