Q. Do new scissors used for cutting poultry need tevila in a mikva?
A. Shach (Y.D. 120: 11) rules that a utensil used for food preparation that will require additional changes to make it edible, should be immersed without a brocho. Similarly the Remoh (ibid. 5) maintains that a shechita knife should preferably be immersed without a brocho. Taz (ibid.7) asserts that this applies even if the shechita knife, as usual, is only used for that purpose. However, Taharas Yom Tov (2: p. 120 - quoted in Tevilas Keilim 1: 3: f. 5) disagrees and opines that no tevila is needed.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit'a opinion is that if the scissors are only used for raw food like cutting poultry, they require tevila without a brocho. However, if used also for edible food, a brocho should also be recited.
(Tevilas Keilim 1:3:footnote 5, Taz ibid, Aruch Ha’shulchan 39, 41, Avnei Yoshfe 1:148:3.See similar psak in StarK Kashrus Kurrents v.37: 3. See also Kof K Tevilas Kelim p. 5)
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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