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Q - Is there an Issur to eat bees honey that is unfiltered because there may be bee parts in it or do we say that the bee parts if in there may be too small too see therefore there is no issur and anyway some bee parts may be muttar?
A - Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 81,8) rules that bee's honey is permitted even if the remains of the bee are mixed in it, or if they were cooked together with the honey. The reason given is that they provide a bad taste to the honey. However, the Pri Chodosh (ibid. 20) and the Pri Megodim (Sifsei Daas 103,11), advise not eating or cooking the honey that contains bee parts, unless those were removed by proper sifting. Most Poiskim agree with them (Yalkut Yosef, Isur Veheter 81,39)
Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is, that the small remaining body parts that are so minute they are unnoticeable to the naked eye, don't have to be removed.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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