Nat bar nat in cooking prohibited food
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Question
Shalom to the Rav,
What is the halachic ruling in the following case — if I have a hermetically sealed pot, inside which there is a non-kosher meat dish that is boiling, and I place this pot into another pot that contains boiling water.
My doubt is as follows: do the water in the outer pot become forbidden because they absorb the prohibition? In other words, should we say that there is some sort of connection here — that even though there are walls separating between the utensils, nevertheless the taste of the prohibition passes through the walls, and thus the prohibition inside the inner pot passes through the wall into the water in the outer pot?
So the questions are:
What is the status of the water — do they become forbidden because they absorb the taste of the prohibition?
What is the status of the outer pot — does it become forbidden for use?
And if afterwards, within 24 hours, another dish was cooked in this pot — does that dish become forbidden?
With blessings and thanks
What is the halachic ruling in the following case — if I have a hermetically sealed pot, inside which there is a non-kosher meat dish that is boiling, and I place this pot into another pot that contains boiling water.
My doubt is as follows: do the water in the outer pot become forbidden because they absorb the prohibition? In other words, should we say that there is some sort of connection here — that even though there are walls separating between the utensils, nevertheless the taste of the prohibition passes through the walls, and thus the prohibition inside the inner pot passes through the wall into the water in the outer pot?
So the questions are:
What is the status of the water — do they become forbidden because they absorb the taste of the prohibition?
What is the status of the outer pot — does it become forbidden for use?
And if afterwards, within 24 hours, another dish was cooked in this pot — does that dish become forbidden?
With blessings and thanks
Answer
Shalom u’vracha.
The water and the outer pot become forbidden, according to the law of “nat bar nat” of a prohibited taste.
If, after 24 hours, a permitted food was cooked in this utensil, it is not rendered forbidden after the fact, since the absorbed taste has already weakened.
However, it is prohibited, ab initio, to cook any permitted food in this pot.
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