"an epiphany"
Isn't it odd that almost all religious Jews have separate tableclothes for meat and dairy, and yet even the most stringent use the same toothbrush to clean their teeth no matter what remnants of food remain in their mouths?
posted by Goldie at 6:25 PM
11 Comments:
You don't eat from your toothbrush...
Do you eat from your table cloth?
BTW, I'm not commenting from an halachic standpoint per se, the concept just seems very counter-intuitive to me.
Don't you eat from your tablecloth?
No, I eat from my plate which sits on my tablecloth.
Toothbrushes are pretty much innately never going to be yad soledes. Maybe that plays in.
I have separate toothbrushes. Problem solved.
Miriam: Same applies to a tablecloth...
Anonymous: Do you really??
Anyway, I'm not looking for additional restrictions, I just thought that given the abundance of seemingly far fetched minhagim orthodox Jews adhere to, seems odd that this sort of thing is not done more often...
Not so much, though--I don't know, we sometimes put, say, a hot plate down on a table, or spill hot soup, or whatever...
Then again, in my house we used a tablecloth for meat or milk until it got washed, which sort of reset it. Logic being that washing a tablecloth in hot water with soap is sufficient to make it kosher for Pesach, and milk/meat separation is less stringent than chametz/no chametz.
Something else interesting, though, is that porcelain is totally porous (nothing like glass that you can at least argue might not hold an essence of meat/milk) and yet there is no issue with dentures or permanent false teeth. I think at a certain point people make allowances out of practicality--it would be inane to only eat milk or meat for the rest of one's life. I guess.
Why doesn't makeup need a hachsher? You technically consume it.
Yuck. Part of the reason I rarely were lipstick. And some people are careful about the ingredients of their lipsticks: especially on Pesach.
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