What words do Rabbis say when they go to companies to "bless" foods to make it kosher?

Question

This is not an argument with people who lie or don't know what they are talking about when they say "Rabbis don't bless the food" to make it Kosher. I have contacted companies myself, comapnaies that use the U with a circle around it, and of the companies I spoke to it was confirmed by them that Rabbi's indeed infact bless the product. So my question is what blessing do they say?

Answer 1

The rabbis do not bless the food. What they do is make sure that it contains only pure ingredients and nothing that is prohibited, such as pork, seafood or meat-and-dairy combinations.

Answer 2

Man, you gotta do your research better if you want to sting people with your incontravertable facts.

Let's say Rabbis are secretly and ominously blessing food and pretending not to. How are you going to prove that? By calling the company where the food is blessed, you thought. Wrong.

A sensible person confronted by every Rabbi in the world saying the food is not blessed, and you saying you called the food producer and it is, will think that either you are lieing, or the girl who works in the office upstairs comes into work, never sees the plant below, answered the phone, and just answered your question off the top of her head without any real knowledge.

Now here's what you really need to do: Send a letter to the Kosher organization that sends the Rabbi. In the letter tell them you have a special peanut brittle bar you are producing and would like a "heksher." (That's the name of the mark showing its kosher.) Ask them in the letter if you could have the Rabbi come by and bless the food, and ask them how much it will cost.

Then when they send you a letter with the cost, and saying that the rabbi does bless the food, you have incontravertible proof. Or if they send you one with a cost, ask for your ingredients and process, and tell you the Rabbi doesn't bless food he does like the people up above said, you know better.

BTW, I lived in Palestine, and the Zionist government by law requires all the food to be kosher to its standards. (Which none of the religious Jews accept as good enough.) The Rabbi doesn't bless the food. He does like everyone up above says. Now your real killer question on the whole process is if the Mother Lover actually ever does his job. In my experience, dude doesn't do anything and those religious people are right to only eat stuff their own rabbi certified.

Answer 3

Food does not become kosher; it either is kosher or it is not.
Meat, however, is another story.
A rabbi who specializes in slaughtering animals the kosher way performs the slaughtering. Before he does, he says a blessing. Only beef, chicken, or turkey that has been slaughtered properly according to Jewish law(causing minimum pain to the animal) is kosher.
And finally, the person who slaughters the animals has to know the intricacies of the Jewish law, but he does not have to be a rabbi.
Companies like the OU and the OK employ rabbis who go into manufacturing plants to make sure certain foods are kosher: They check the equipment used and the ingredients used. If all is proper, they give those foods a kosher sign. These cases do not involve blessing the food.

Answer 4

Hi, answer m.

The rabbi who comes into the companies is called the Mashgiach. I have worked as a mashgiach. Yes, you come in. The plant manager will say, "Are you the Rabbi?" YOu say, "Yes." He says, "I'll show you around so you can bless the food."

We don't bless the food, and if we did, it wouldn't affect its kosher status, but the guy always says it. What we really do is look around to make sure they didn't change the ingredients on our ingredient list, and that the place is kept clean of food brought in from outside.

Then we say thanks, take the tour just because it's fun, sometimes you can get them to let you drive a fork truck short distances (I have a little card saying I know how, so I have a lot of luck with that one.)

But no, there's no blessing, nor is there any reason there should be. A rabbi in Judaism is far less a clergyman and more a legal expert in Jewish law. His blessing isn't worth more than Joe Shmendrick's and could be worth less.

Answer 5

ummm,... any blessings, if there, are not what make it kosher.

the function of rabbis inspecting companies and such is to make sure its prepared right. if its prepared right then its kosher wether the rabbi, or anyone else gives any blessings, or not.

but any blessing that there may be has NOTHING to do with the thing being kosher or not.

and whats it matter? if you don't know it, or mean it with the right intent it means nothing, or means worse than nothing.

but at least for normal circumstances, there are normal specific blessings for various types of food. one for bread,one for fruit, one for vine-things, one for meat and one for everyhing else, or something like that.
but again... the blessing is not the point, and has nothing to do with it being kosher or not.

Answer 6

blessing the food has no effect on its being kosher or not. this does not mean they don't bless the food, it just means that they can bless it or not bless it all they want to and it doesn't effect its status as kosher or nonkosher food.

EDIT

see, the guy above me is a rabbi, and he says they don't bless it. he should know.