[Sca-cooks] Kashrut

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

not a problem at all!
i just have to remember that when the bottle or pitcher of wine comes around
i do not handle it!

i have been to kosher dinners, i just ask the person sitting next to me to
pour my wine.
i usually sit on my hands (literally or figuratively) because people who are
having a big friendly kosher dinner tend to forget that i am not
jewish........ and forget NOT to pass me the wine bottle!
after all, i trouped with everyone else to the hand washing... recited
blessings, and was deep in a discussion of "how to cook a kosher meal in a
non kosher kitchen" when the wine got passed.....

it got tricky at one meal when i forgot...... i had passed the beef, passed
the potatoes, passed the "what is it" and had my hands on the wine bottle
before i realized..... fortunately it was boiled wine, and they could still
use it.  otherwise it would have become MY personal wine bottle. and i dont
drink that much!

it is a matter of respecting my hosts religion and custom.  the same way i
would not bring a dairy item to a meat meal. even though *I* can eat it. it
would be a possible problem for my hosts!!!!
Kirsten Houseknecht
Fabric Dragon
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
www.fabricdragon.com
Philadelphia, PA     USA
Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...

I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yehoshua ben Haim haLevi" <zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Kashrut


> On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 15:29, Heleen Greenwald wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > >   Kirsten Houseknecht said:i know enough to sit on my hands when you
> > pass a bottle of opened wine.......
> >
> > Kirsten, I still don't know why you would sit on your hands.  You could
> > certainly have some wine along with everybody else, as soon as the
blessing
> > was made.
> >
>
> Or we can just pour it for her. Really not a major problem.
>
> > >> > More recently due to the same prohibition of the worship of Idols
the
> > > Rabbis have banned wigs with Hair from India. This is the current big
> > > brew-ha-ha in the orthodox world.
> > >
> > Yehoshua, I have been following that particular bru-ha-ha with
amusement.
> > As always  (at least the latest I've read) some say 'Indian hair wigs
OK'
> > and some say not.... so go find a rabbi you like/respect/admire and
follow
> > his advice.  I also read that some leaders of some of the Orthodox
community
> > met with some of the Indian folk to iron things out.  Do you have the
latest
> > of the latest info on that or the latest of the latest status of the
wigs?
> >
> > Thanks !
> > Phillipa
> >
>
> To be honest I've not been paying very close attention. My fiance has a
> wig from her first time being married, but its not hair from India, and
> she plans to mostly wear hats and scarves anyway. I haven't asked my
> rabbi about it, but *HIS* wife wears hats. We are really not at the Wig
> end of the orthodox world so its not much of a big deal for us.
>
> Apparently this pops up every 10-15 years. And every time everyone is
> shocked.
>
> -- 
> --Yehoshua ben Haim haLevi
> Senischal incipient Shire of Beit Aryeh
> MKA: Zachary Kessin Jerusalem Israel
> zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu +972 50 780 9717 +1 646 201 9507
>
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