- Halacha
- Various Products
Kosher soap
Question
Most soaps are made from sodium tallowate (beef fat)do I have to use only soap with Hechsher?
Answer
Soap does not require a hechsher. Beef fat from a non kosher animal is forbidden to eat, but benefit may be derived from it. Washing with the soap is a permitted benefit.

Crystallized Ginger
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Kislev 12, 5769

Is human milk kosher?
Various Rabbis | 14 Nisan 5763

Is gelatine in a dairy product vegetarian?
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 3 Kislev 5763

Herbs and spices on Passover
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 14 Nisan 5763

Rabbi Chaim Tabasky
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky teaches a shiur in gemarah at the Beit Midrash program of the Machon Hagavoah l'Torah at Bar Ilan University. He is also a certified examiner of STa"M (Sifrei Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzot) and a narrative therapist.

Dates,Years,Centuries
20 Iyyar 5764

Keeping Bread Kosher
29 Iyyar 5764

Bottom Challah
19 Sivan 5764

Crossing the International Dateline
20 Iyyar 5764

Eating in Shiurim
Rabbi David Sperling | Tishrei 7, 5775

Keeping 1 or 2 days Yom Tov in Israel
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 23 Nisan 5766

Mosquito netting on top of Succah
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 10 Tishrei 5767

Death on the Holiday
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 8 Tishrei 5765
Blessings and Bnei Noach
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tishrei 4, 5784
converting to Jewaism
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Elul 25, 5783

chelev oblation
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Elul 25, 5783
