Kosher wine is wine that is produced in accordance with halakha, and more specifically kashrut, such that Jews will be permitted to pronounce blessings over and drink it.
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Kosher wine is wine that is produced in accordance with halakha, and more specifically kashrut, such that Jews will be permitted to pronounce blessings over and drink it.
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When kosher wine is produced, marketed, and sold commercially, it would normally have a hechsher issued by a kosher certification agency, or by an authoritative rabbi who is respected and known to be learned in Jewish law, or by the Kashruth Committee working under a beth din .
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Use of Kosher wine has a long history in Judaism, dating back to biblical times.
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When kosher wine is yayin mevushal, it becomes unfit for idolatrous use and will keep the status of kosher wine even if subsequently touched by an idolater.
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When kosher wine is mevushal, it thereby becomes unfit for idolatrous use and will keep the status of kosher wine even if subsequently touched by an idolater.
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Mevushal wine is frequently used in kosher restaurants and by kosher caterers so as to allow the wine to be handled by non-Jewish or non-observant waiters.
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Once the Kosher wine emerges from the process, it can be handled and aged in the normal fashion.
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Kosher wine noted that most winemaking in the United States is fully automated.
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Kosher wine cites rabbinic thought on Jewish views of Christians, finding that most poskim refused to consign Christians to the status of idolater.
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The inclusion of any non-kosher ingredient within the wine occurs by accident, and in such minute quantities that the ingredient is nullified.
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