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1) A tea pot or a tea kettle (free standing or electric) used exclusively to boil water wich does not come in contact with any meat or dairy may be used to boil water for use at both meat and dairy meals.
In order to ensure that the water kettle remains Parve, it is best to keep any meat or dairy foods away from it, not pass foods that may spill over it when the kettle is uncovered, and not even to warm up non parve foods on top of the kettle, even if it's covered.
2) It is also best not to pour directly from the water kettle onto meat or dairy foods (e.g. to let the water run on frozen chicken to defrost it or to add hot water directly into a cup containing milk or dairy hot chocolate) as the steam can go back up into the kettle or its spoutand jeopardize its parve status. (According to some Poskim this isn't a problem as they maintain that steam doesn't go straight up, and even if it does, some Poskim still maintain that it isn't a problem for meat and milk and only an issue for Chometz and other Issurim. See Aruch HaShulchan Siman 92, Shu"t Minchas Yitzchok Vol. 5 Siman 81. It is still proper to try and be careful with this, and if this did happen a Rav should be consulted)
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QUESTION & ANSWER CORNER:
Reader Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers. Taken from the Q & A pages on the Halacha For Todaywebsite.
Although the answers I give to questions are taken directly from the Sifrei HaPoskim, and aren't my own, they are still for study purposes only, NOT for Psak Halacha.
What is the shoresh/reason for the minhag of bringing into a new apartment a box of matzohs and salt?
Answer:
In the Sefer Mat'amim HaChadash page 5 he writes that the reason for the minhag to bring bread, salt, candles and honey into a new home before residing there for the first time is because Hashem, before creating Adam and bringing into his new home [Gan Eden], prepared for him all sorts of trees with fruits for him to eat, and also the light that was in Gan Eden allowed Adam to see from one end of the world until the other end. Also before Noach entered the Teivah he stocked it with food and precious stones that lit up the Teiva.
In the Sefer Minhagei Belz it is written that Rav Ahron of Belz Zatzal used to tell people to bring in salt and bread into the home before occupying it, and to then distribute it to poor people. This is a Segulah for parnasah and Bracha in the new home
Our holy sages, the Chazal tell us
תנא דבי אליהו כל השונה הלכות בכל יום מובטח לו שהוא בן עולם הבא, שנאמר הליכות עולם לו, אל תקרי הליכות אלא הלכות - one who studies [at least two] Halachos daily is assured a portion in Olam Haba - the world to come. (:מגילה כ"ח )
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