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Respecting parents

Hi Rabbi –
I have a question about doing misvot…
My mother asked me to get her something and my brother was in the room and heard her request too. He made a motion to me, like I can stay seated and he will get up and get it for her. But I got up quickly anyway and got it for her…
Should I have let my brother do it? As far as “kibud em” – my mother’s needs would have been met by my brother who was going to act quickly, so my mother would have been taken care of if he did it or if I did it. If I let my brother do the misva instead of me, am I then doing a chessed for him by allowing him to do the misva? Isn’t it better? Plus I was willing to do the kibud em so it’s not like laziness stopped me…. But do I come to a problem for not honoring my mother when she asked for something, if I allowed my brother to do it? How should we view these kind of moments?
Thank you for your clarification and help!

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