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Verification of Josephus Flavius

Hi my name is Sam and recently my brother gave me a book called Antiquity of the Jews by Flavius Josephus. Ever since I read the second part, I have had a belief crisis. In the second part, Josephus Flavius, a jewish priest records the history of christians, from their bible, which convinced me it was true. I asked my dad for help, and he just told me that it is ridiculous fake content that I should be never be worried about. I try to convince myself that this is true, but then I recall the book I read about Flavius Josephus where he describes what happened. They say that Flavius Josephus records facts only as he was of the same period of the christians. Please can you help me pull myself together? I would prefer an email , but a call would be fine as well. Thank you.

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.