{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Lemaan Yishmeu - Rabbi Braun","title":"How Do I Toivel a Keurig?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2108,"description":"In this week’s episode, the topics discussed by Rabbi Braun include:\nPublic birthday parties and ayin hora\nIs there a concern of ayin hora in making large public gatherings for a seventieth or eightieth birthday?\nSince the Korban Todah was brought with forty challos specifically so that a crowd would be invited, is publicizing Hashem’s kindness in fact the entire point of a seudas hoda’ah?\nDoes such a seuda carry its own protection, since the kiddush shem shamayim offsets the merits that are otherwise deducted when a miracle is done for a person?\nWhat could we learn from the Rebbe’s conduct in this regard?\nTevilas keilim for electric appliances\nMust electric appliances be toiveled even when the label warns that immersion will ruin them, and what practical steps make it workable?\nIf the appliance would be ruined or the water cannot reach inside, is one exempt because a mitzvah one cannot perform does not apply, or must one simply not use the utensil?\nHaving a Jewish professional reassemble it renders it Jewish-made. What about an amateur doing so?\nHow much weight do the various arguments for leniency carry (mechubar lekarka, plugging it in as “finishing” it, beis hastarim, not being a kli seudah, and merely being the non-Jew’s “store merchandise”), given that tevilas keilim is deoraysa?\nTevilah for a Keurig machine\nIs a Keurig different from other electric appliances, being a pump rather than a kli, and one that will certainly be ruined by immersion?\nIf it’s not merely a matter of damage but genuinely impossible for the water to reach the area requiring immersion, could it be that the chiyuv of tevilah never applied at all?\nMay one rely on giving it as a gift to a non-Jew and borrowing it back, even though it will stay in the Jew’s hands indefinitely?\nSince the Taz required toiveling a borrowed kli specifically because one is able to, does that imply the requirement falls away where immersion is impossible, as poskim held with very large vessels?\nA shiur in shul...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3yjUxK4ctnSViSNoRJs1n70YSJC3FwrMVpVQRYN5Smo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNzFk/ZDFmMTU2ZjhiNGUz/NTZlMjQwNWM3OTRi/ZDVlNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}