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category:  Jewish Law

Opening and running a home for Jewish children and orphans

Hi Rabbi, I’m 26 years old (female, Jewish, USA). I’ve always wanted to start a small boarding school for orphaned or abandoned Jewish children- maybe 20 kids, staff, a nice piece of land with a school and amenities… to make it like a small community or big family… I wanted to learn the halachot and rules around this. Is this something that there is a need for in the Jewish community? Is this something that you think could be successful or are there other factors involved that I need to consider- mainly halachically but from any standpoint… Do you know a good source for halachot on this? Thank you very much for your help and guidance.

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.

Sources

ראה יורה דעה סי’ צ”ד ס”ו סי’ צ”ו סי’ א’ וס”ה וראה סי’ צ”א ס”ב.