Rosh Yeshiva Responds
Rabbi Linzer answers halakhic questions from rabbis and community members

28 03, 2023

Kashering a Dutch Oven for Pesach Used for Both Cooking and Baking

March 28th, 2023|Hechsher Keilim, Orach Chayim, Pesach|

QUESTION

Chicago, IL

Kashering question—this Dutch Oven is used as a pot, but also upside down to make bread. How should it be kashered for Pesach? Do we follow it’s majority usage (רוב תשמישו) as a pot, and therefore require hagalah? Or do we do libun for the smaller piece since it’s it used for baking but only a lid for bishul?

ANSWER

I have a hard time considering this rov tashmisho. I don’t think that rov tashmisho is measured by 51%. If using it

10 01, 2021

Staying in a Hotel Next to a Hospital

January 10th, 2021|Kashrut, Mezuzah, Yoreh De'ah|

QUESTION

Los Angeles, CA

A woman, for a medical procedure, is temporarily staying at the hotel connected to the hospital.

A. They brought a mezuzah, but were told not to put it on the outside of the doorpost. Can they put it on the inside of the lintel, so that it’s not beyond the hotel door, but is still on the lintel?

B. There are pots and pans in their room that they’d like to use. Libun seems like it’s probably