Q. What if the scales were already removed from a fish? Is there any way to know whether it is kosher?
A. If the skin of the fish is intact, and one is able to identify the species based on its skin, we can accept the fish as kosher even though we did not see the fish with its scales. The basis for this is the Gemara (Chulin 66) which says that a fish which will eventually grow scales (but doesn’t have any yet) is kosher. Pischei Teshuva (Yoreh Deah 83:2) explains that in order to rely on this halachah and permit the fish without seeing its scales one would need to be able to recognize the species of fish based on the appearance of its skin.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Halacha Yomis - Fish, Scales Removed OU Kosher Halacha Yomis This column is dedicated in memory of: Rav Chaim Yisroel ben Reb Dov HaLevi Belsky, zt'l Senior OU Kosher Halachic Consultant from 1987-2016
Q. What if the scales were already removed from a fish? Is there any way to know whether it is kosher?
A. If the skin of the fish is intact, and one is able to identify the species based on its skin, we can accept the fish as kosher even though we did not see the fish with its scales. The basis for this is the Gemara (Chulin 66) which says that a fish which will eventually grow scales (but doesn’t have any yet) is kosher. Pischei Teshuva (Yoreh Deah 83:2) explains that in order to rely on this halachah and permit the fish without seeing its scales one would need to be able to recognize the species of fish based on the appearance of its skin.
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