Q. Do cream cheese and cottage cheese need to be gevinas Yisroel/made with hashgacha temidis?
A. This is a point of machlokes. The Chochmas Odom (53:38) and Aruch Ha-Shulchan (YD 115:16) maintain that even these and other “soft” cheeses, which are made with acid cultures rather than rennet enzymes, must be gevinas Yisroel in order to be permitted; Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt’l (Igros Moshe YD 2:48) provides the rationale to consider these cheeses exempt from a gevinas Yisroel requirement, yet writes that he cannot issue a leniency for it; Rav Yosef Eliyohu Henkin ruled that these cheeses are kosher even without fulfilling gevinas Yisroel requirements. Most national kashrus agencies follow Rav Henkin for cholov stam cheeses but certify cholov Yisroel cheeses only when gevinas Yisroel requirements are met.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Halacha Yomis - Gevinas Yisroel, soft cheese OU Kosher Halacha Yomis This column is dedicated in memory of: Rav Chaim Yisroel Belsky, zt'l Senior OU Kosher Halachic Consultant (1987-2016)
Q. Do cream cheese and cottage cheese need to be gevinas Yisroel/made with hashgacha temidis?
A. This is a point of machlokes. The Chochmas Odom (53:38) and Aruch Ha-Shulchan (YD 115:16) maintain that even these and other “soft” cheeses, which are made with acid cultures rather than rennet enzymes, must be gevinas Yisroel in order to be permitted; Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt’l (Igros Moshe YD 2:48) provides the rationale to consider these cheeses exempt from a gevinas Yisroel requirement, yet writes that he cannot issue a leniency for it; Rav Yosef Eliyohu Henkin ruled that these cheeses are kosher even without fulfilling gevinas Yisroel requirements. Most national kashrus agencies follow Rav Henkin for cholov stam cheeses but certify cholov Yisroel cheeses only when gevinas Yisroel requirements are met.
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