Cotton candy machine – tevilat kelim
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Question
We want to buy a machine for making "yimbambam" (an electric kitchen appliance). In the store on Harav Rozovski Street 9 they advertise that the machine is exempt from tevilat kelim (immersion of utensils). On the phone they told us that the sugar also touches the inner part near the motor, but according to them, Rabbi Amram ruled for them that it is sufficient for the buyer at home to unscrew a few screws and put them back, and in this way the utensil is exempt from immersion.
Does such home disassembly and reassembly indeed exempt from tevilat kelim, or is specifically a professional craftsman’s work required in order to exempt from immersion?
Does such home disassembly and reassembly indeed exempt from tevilat kelim, or is specifically a professional craftsman’s work required in order to exempt from immersion?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha,
Disassembly and reassembly that are the act of a layman – something that any person knows how to do – do not exempt from tevilat kelim (immersion of utensils).
Only disassembly that requires a “professional craftsman’s work” – meaning specific knowledge and skill – if done by a Jew, exempts the utensil from immersion.
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