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Sacrifice for head covering

The Rav Name: Rabbis of the Da’at Institute
  • Question

I started covering my hair with a mitpachat after my wedding day, but within a year’s time, I began suffering from noticeable hair loss and very painful headaches. The texture of my hair makes it very hard to keep a mitpachat in place without sliding off my head within a couple hours. I have to use a very tight velvet headband to secure a scarf for any amount of time. I was told that the headband being so tight was both pulling my hair (causing it to fall out and thin in places) and causing tension headaches. I want to cover properly and keep this mitzvah, but the pain and suffering became unbearable. I switched to using hats and wide-loose headbands, but I am not sure if this counts toward the mitzvah or not. What should I do?

  • Answer
In the halachos of kashrus we find that the mixing of milk and meat can either by done by the milk and meat mixing.
Or by their taste mixing The taste of food can transfer either when the food is at the heat of 45 Celsius (while some are machmir at 40 Celsius) or if the food is sharp and cut with a knife. if the food is not sharp or hot the taste which is in the food will not transfer over via the vessels which are being used unless the vessel being used is unclean as the hen there is actual food left there which is giving over the taste.
Therefore, theoretically speaking if you wash down the mixer after usage you can surely use it for dairy and thereafter for pareve with no concern at all.
For this reason there is no problem to use the same machine for both dairy and pareve yet if the machine is not totally clean you should wipe it down the machine after using for dairy before you use it for pareve if you want the pareve to certainly remain pareve.

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