Oven
Question
1. If one were to cook liquids in the oven, would you have to cover either the meat or dairy food? 2. If I mistakenly cook dairy in a meat pot, and the pot hasn't been used for 24 hours I am allowed to eat the food. But let's say I don't want to because it turns my stomach. Is this OK or is it wrong because I am rejecting the halakhah which says that there is nothing wrong with the food?
Answer
Answered by Aaron Abadi1) At the same time, it is notr recommended to be used for both. However, one after the next is OK. You do not need to cover it, but if it might spill, it pays to cover it. 2) The Gemora & others refer to this as foolish. It's a very deep concept that might take people time to understand. If something is permitted, eat it. Let's work real hard on the real stuff and not on these emotionally driven Halachot. People that follow emotionally driven Halachot often realize that even the real Halachot are being kept because of the emotional value. Our religion is simple. God gave us a book, the Torah. It is a set of rules. Follow the rules and you win the game. Anything done for alternative purposes are not acceptable within these rules. Even eating, drinking, sleeping, vacationing, etc, should be to better your abilities to keep the Torah. All actions should be for one sole purpose. Instead, many people keep a robotic form of this religion; repeating what they have done the day before, not necessarily because the Torah says it. Hence if you show them that the Torah says differently, it does not cause them to change. This robotic engine is what drives people to not eat certain things that their brain & the Halachah says is Kosher. That engine must be stopped at all costs. The driving force should be the direct observance of the laws of the Torah. If one day you find something is Kosher, it should be eaten with the same drive that you used to refrain from eating it the day before. Baalei Teshuva (people who returned to the faith) often have an easier time with this. Look into it and try to understand it, but it is an important part of Judaism. The Rambam says that one who does not understand this is certainly a "fool." AA