A cook's profession is to cook and prepare food, so it must be seen that he is not Jewish lest they fail to mistake him for being Jewish and rely on him for kosher matters/ShutterStock
Many times in our daily lives halachic questions arise and topical doubts arise.
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Sha'ari Ezra community and head of Beit Erzi HaLebanon, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in the Beit Midrash and outside of it.
And this week: should a gentile cook wear a kippa?
Question
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Hello to the Halacha team on the Walla site!
Judaism, we wanted to ask for guidance regarding a gentile cook who works at our yeshiva, should we require him to wear a kippa so that he does not look different from all the others in the place.
Thank you in advance.
Answer
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Hello and blessing.
Indeed, your question is interesting, and after searching I found that there are several arbitrators from the previous generation who shared this question (it was brought up in the important book Opening the Tolls, page RL).
In the book Rabbi's Words (Kamg page) he wrote in the name of Rabbi Shalom Rafhan that he was asked by the director of a small yeshiva if it was right to ask a foreign teacher for school studies to wear a kippah while he is in class, and he replied yes because he should behave like all the other people.
However, when they asked Rabbi Solovitzik, he replied to the manager that there was no need to ask. And again, Rabbi Kotler, head of the petitioning Lakewood Yeshiva, replied that they would not ask for that, since there is a matter of separation from foreigners.
However, it would seem to me to add that there is a difference between what they said and what Didan condemned, since a school teacher only teaches the required material, but a cook's profession is to cook and prepare food, so it must be seen that he is not Jewish lest they fail to mistake him for being Jewish and rely on him for kosher matters, and He will be allowed to cook things that have a prohibition against the cooking of Akoum.
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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