Comments on: Another Burgers Bar Joins the Mehadrin Club http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2009/09/another-burgers-bar-joins-the-mehadrin-club/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-burgers-bar-joins-the-mehadrin-club Reporting on Kashrus in Eretz Yisrael Sun, 06 May 2012 13:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: yechiel-admin http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2009/09/another-burgers-bar-joins-the-mehadrin-club/comment-page-1/#comment-397 yechiel-admin Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:10:19 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=1298#comment-397 FROM A READER I agree that it's wonderful to have more mehadrin stores. However, it's very problematic to have a chain of stores with different hechsherim. Back home [US] our local vaad never allowed such a thing. I'm very skeptical. Maybe you can ask Rav Rubin what safeguards he has instituted to ensure there is nothing transferred from one store in the chain to another store. And how are the people supposed to be careful. Remember that the masses are _____. I know of someone who at the last minute was saved from eating at a treif McDonald's here in Israel. He got confused between the kosher [?] ones and the others. Yasher Koach on your great work. CY FROM A READER

I agree that it’s wonderful to have more mehadrin stores. However, it’s very problematic to have a chain of stores with different hechsherim. Back home
[US] our local vaad never allowed such a thing. I’m very skeptical. Maybe
you can ask Rav Rubin what safeguards he has instituted to ensure there is nothing transferred from one store in the chain to another store. And how are the people supposed to be careful. Remember that the masses are _____.
I know of someone who at the last minute was saved from eating at a treif McDonald’s here in Israel. He got confused between the kosher [?] ones and the others.

Yasher Koach on your great work.
CY

]]> By: David http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2009/09/another-burgers-bar-joins-the-mehadrin-club/comment-page-1/#comment-395 David Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:26:33 +0000 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/?p=1298#comment-395 Although I generally follow standard Rabbanut kashrut, sometimes if I see an unauthorized "mehadrin" kashrut certificate as well, I make a point of telling the store owner or staff member that the "mehadrin" certificate does not count for anything but I follow standard normal kashrut therefore I am eating here. With that, ladun l'khaf z'chut [=to find merit], I had a thought that although the unauthorized certificate does not really count as a hashgacha maybe because of having this certificate and possibly signing on an agreement, the proprietor of the establishment does make it his business to procure mehadrin meat. Any thoughts? Although I generally follow standard Rabbanut kashrut, sometimes if I see an unauthorized “mehadrin” kashrut certificate as well, I make a point of telling the store owner or staff member that the “mehadrin” certificate does not count for anything but I follow standard normal kashrut therefore I am eating here.

With that, ladun l’khaf z’chut [=to find merit], I had a thought that although the unauthorized certificate does not really count as a hashgacha maybe because of having this certificate and possibly signing on an agreement, the proprietor of the establishment does make it his business to procure mehadrin meat.

Any thoughts?

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