Re: Is white sugar treif?



yacovachi@xxxxxxx writes:
> kepipesiom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> We do not even have to go to the nothein ta'am test. Bone char is
>> active charcoal made by burning bones to destruction leaving nearly
>> pure carbon in the form of fine charcoal. As I was taught very many
>> years ago, such thoroughly combusted substances are never treif,
>> regardless of their origin. If this is correct, then even were the
>> sugar to have some taste of charcoal in it, it would still be kosher.
> 
> That's true.  I did not realize what "bone char" was.
> 
> Same basis for R. Ovadia Yosef, and Rabbi Isaac Abadi, allowing any
> type of gelatin.  They maintain the chemical change is sufficient to
> remove the bones form the status of bones.  Regardless of their source.

When you say; "They maintain", it sounds to me like their _opinion_.
Could others hold a valid _different_ "opinion"?

Moshe Schorr
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