Rabbi Abadi

Question

You wrote: In regards to packaged products... Did you ever eat one product and taste the flavor of another product? You eat mars bar and you taste Milky Way? Isn't the Halachah of Taaruvot dependant on TASTE? If we know that there is no taste, we are done. We don't need 60, we don't need a Kefeila, and we don't need Pagum. Why is it that basic Halachah is forgotten and we just follow to the letter whatever propoganda is fed to us?! --------------- This "propaganda" is the view of the Rama, who ruled that we do not rely on our tastebuds and follow 60 and ben-yomo without distinction. Your father holds like the Beis yosef? Good. But the other side is not propoganda. Aaron, I truly have trouble understanding part of your style. I would say that the areas of disagreement between your father Shlita and other poskim and rabbis can be narrowed down to the following: 1- The corruption of the unqualified people in the Kashrus industry, that fools or coerces food companies into paying for supervision and symbols when they are not required by halacha. 2- Actual, real and understandable machlokes poskim based on different understandings of the words of the Talmud and Rishonim. 3- Your father shlita, a sefardi, does not accord the same weight to Ashkenazi precedent that Ashkenazi poskim traditionally give. i.e. eino ben-yomo rules, glass, grama on shabbos. Your father shlita's views are part of the mesora and all those who follow his psak are justified in considering them as Divrei Elokim Chaim. In my opinion, where this website veers off is when you accuse other rabbis, balebatim who disagree with your father's shitos of the corruption and stupidity of cause #1 above. Why can't you distinguish between those who honestly and knowledgeably disagree with your father (e.g. gelatin, eino ben yomo, grama) and those who are crooked (e.g. give a hechsher to Tide detergent and bleach)? Please reply kindly. I have been polite.