A Handbook for Keeping Kosher - Couverture souple

Hasofer, Mordechai

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9657864577 ISBN 13 : 9789657864579

Editeur : Gefen Publishing House, Ltd., 2025

Synopsis

What does it really mean to keep kosher in today's world?

A Handbook for Keeping Kosher is a comprehensive and practical guide to the laws of kashrut, combining traditional halachic principles with an understanding of modern kitchens, food production, ingredients, and technology. Developed from years of lectures and experience in professional kosher supervision, the book makes the often complex details of kashrut accessible to readers at different levels of knowledge.

From setting up and maintaining a kosher kitchen to understanding the separation of meat and dairy, the book addresses the questions that arise in everyday Jewish life. It explores kosher and non-kosher food contact, kashering utensils, immersion of cookware, kosher meat and fish, insects in food, food cooked by non-Jews, wine, baked goods, dairy products, and many other practical concerns. It also examines how contemporary food-production methods and ingredients can affect a product's kosher status.

Drawing on the author's experience working in the Kashrut Authority of Bnei Brak under Rav Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa, the handbook brings together halachic, professional, and technological knowledge to explain not only what the laws of kashrut require, but the practical considerations behind them.

Whether you are beginning to keep kosher, seeking to refresh your knowledge, or looking for a practical reference to the complexities of modern kashrut, A Handbook for Keeping Kosher offers an informative resource for bringing the laws of the kosher home into everyday practice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mordechai Hasofer studied at the Yeshiva Gedola of Australia and New Zealand and holds degrees in mechanical engineering and chemistry. For over twenty-five years, he served as chief food production researcher and ingredient inspector under Harav Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa ztz"l, chief rabbi of Bnei Brak. His international work with major kosher certification agencies has made him one of the leading authorities on global kashrut today. He lectures regularly in Israel and abroad, guiding both consumers and professionals on the science and practice of kosher food production.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gefen Publishing House, Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9657864577
• ISBN 13: 9789657864579
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible