Rabbi Gershon Tanenbaum Z”l

  Can the kosher consumer purchase tongue, cheek meat and cholent bones at their local kosher butcher? This a important question to be asking;  If the shochet is required to give the foreleg cheeks and abomasum of all kosher slaughtered animals but dosn’t -what is the consumer to do?  should he refrain from buying cattle meat…

The big view of Sheiltot is also a sharp one – according to this early sefer halacha, there is room for stringency when buying glatt-kosher beef. This is because of the Gaon’s view that if the shochet does not give the parts of Zroa, Lechayayim and Keva to the kohen the entire animal enters a…