Comments on: Kosher Toilet Paper

By: Peter Pedrotti, Jr.

Peter Pedrotti, Jr. — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:40:29 +0000

Yaakov –

Now that is planning!

Peter

By: Yaakov

Yaakov — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:29:26 +0000

Peter – well, actually in this case your services probably wouldn’t be necessary – the toilet paper in question is sold precut (special for Shabbos).

But thanks for the offer.

By: Peter Pedrotti, Jr.

Peter Pedrotti, Jr. — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:21:09 +0000

I offer my services to tear and stack the sheets of your paper so that you all will not be conflicted about rending any fabric in an untimely manner.

Peter – unemployed shabbos goy

p.s. – And everyone ridicules Catholics for their debates about angels and pinheads. Oy.

By: Moshe

Moshe — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:43:16 +0000

There is a story about Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Orbach Blessed is the Memory of a Righteous one, who was told that the Hamodia newspaper put out an ad for kosher toilet paper. He said its Loshon Horo (slander) against the newspaper. So they brought the newspaper to him. He said its loshon horo on the company. So they showed him the toilet paper itself. He said: “In that case, the hechsher is no good. They need to stamp it on each peace of paper”!

Another story tells about a yeshiva bochur who was in the bathroom for a very long time. Finally the mashgiach went over to find out if everything is OK. The bochur explained: I was waiting so I have kashiur, for asher yotzor.

And finally, there’s the story of the man who bought a new toilet seat before the guests came to his house for Pesach (Passover). His neighbor saw him at the door with the package, and said: Wow! Where did you find that chumra!

By: rivka

rivka — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:12:36 +0000

I thought it had to be kosher to make sure no melacha was done on Shabbos by Jews to produce it

By: B

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:14:57 +0000

You know…if the responsible (maybe IRRESPONSIBLE!!) organizations didn’t waste their time–and OUR money–hechshering aluminum foil, bottled water, and toilet paper, they might actually find the time to hechsher clothing. Are you aware that in ORTHODOX stores, you can buy clothes that are shatnez?!

By: Yaakov

Yaakov — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:46:10 +0000

I don’t know…I have seen some dogs do some pretty disgusting things…

By: cheski

cheski — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:37:55 +0000

Why is there a problem with toilet paper? Especially after it is used, it is not ‘raui l’achilat kelev’ anymore?

By: Ron Katz

Ron Katz — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:23:55 +0000

When people found out that ‘gniza’ (paper from sifrei Torah, tfillin etc) was part of the old paper used in some Israeli recycling plants to make toilet paper, they called for supervision. So kosher toilet paper does make sense (kosher in the sense: fit for use by a religious jew). Kosher for pesach is a standard thing that badatz puts on all products that have no problem being used on Pesach.

By: Gedman

Gedman — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:25:59 +0000

In years past, I saw “kosher toilet paper” in Israel like you describe. Next to the hashgacha symbol was a statement that the toilet paper was made under strict supervision to insure that no shaimot (Torah writings) were included in the recycled paper used to produce the toilet paper.

Here in the US (don’t ask…), we get many imported Israeli food products. One brand of juice under the badatz hashgacha has the statement “Kasher l’yamot ha-shannah bilvad”. Translated: Kosher certification applies only to the days of the year. This begs the Haggaddah-esque question: does the hashgacha apply only during the days and not during the nights? :) If the hashgacha only applies during “the days of the year”, what days is the juice not under hashgacha?

(After asking a few people, everyone agreed that the statement probably means that the hashgacha does not include Pesach supervision.)