#5249- A Matter of Taste
On Asarah Beteveth
on Friday this year can one preparing the food for Shabbat on Friday,
taste it without swallowing, to see if it is well prepared? Do you
then make a bracha?
On a
similar question (429) we wrote:
Remoh (O.H. 567: 1) rules that on a communal fasting day one should
not taste the food without swallowing. Mishna Berura (ibid. 6)
however permits when someone is preparing a mitzvah banquet, to taste
a tiny bit, without swallowing any, to ascertain that it is salted
and flavored properly. (See also Pri Megodim 250: 1 and Piskey
Teshuvos ibid.)
Horav
Shlomo Millers’s Shlit’a opinion is that if it is necessary to
taste the food l’kvod Shabbos as above, you may do so, yet don’t
make a brocho.
Rabbi
Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam,
Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs
Shlit’a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: January 10, 2025