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78nanosieverts:

sinesalvatorem:

Me: The thing I seriously don’t understand about kashrut is that cheese made from animal rennet is kosher. Like, this is literally milk being mixed with an extract of an animal’s stomach (which is meat), so it should be very much banned, unless I’m missing something.

@lethriloth: No, it’s fine, because cheese is boiling the mother’s milk inside the goat.

ah HA

apparently it falls under that weird category where, if it’s from a kosher animal and it’s a “form-giving substance” (aka it wouldn’t be hard cheese if you didn’t have rennet), and it’s 1/60th or less of the product, it’s chill

see Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 87:11

however it still needs to be gevinat yisrael if it’s made with rennet, and some people say the same applies even for soft cheeses but I have no idea why

(also if you think this is bad you should SEE the gelatin discourse)

#amazing



  1. somepeoplecallitlonging reblogged this from bmidbar
  2. lilatanzerin reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:
    #trololololol
  3. bmidbar reblogged this from he-harim and added:
    It’s worth clarifying here that while cheeses made with animal rennet aren’t a kashrut issue because of milk and meat...
  4. he-harim reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:
    i’m so angry at this.i honestly could have sworn that animal rennet+cheese is treif?? do we not go by the SA in this...
  5. silver-and-ivory said: …vegetarians have the same problem :(
  6. helicoidcyme said: omg thank you i have actually wondered this
  7. sinesalvatorem reblogged this from 78nanosieverts and added:
    #amazing
  8. 78nanosieverts reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:
    ah HAapparently it falls under that weird category where, if it’s from a kosher animal and it’s a “form-giving...
  9. osberend reblogged this from sinesalvatorem