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keep kosher en · VERB

Etymology

Partial calque of Yiddish האַלטן כּשר (haltn kosher, “to keep kosher”).

Meanings

1. to observe the rules of kashrut (Jewish dietary laws)
   • In an amazing halachic twist, the Chofetz Chaim (in Sefer Machaneh Yisroel), writing in the late 19th century to Jewish soldiers in the army, notes that if a soldier has the choice to either go to an army base in which he can keep Shabbat but cannot keep kosher or go to a different army base in which he could keep kosher but not Shabbat, he should choose the base that allows for the observance of kashrut and not Shabbat! 2018 February 1, Yogi Robkin, “Is It Easier To Keep Shabbat Than It Is To Keep Kosher?”, in The Forward:

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