Friday, April 13, 2007

Frum Kids Eating Treif?

The Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Yehuda Zev Segal  in his sefer Yirah V'Daas, says on Parsha Shmini: The Igra DeKala (Bnei Yisaschor) quotes his Rebbe, Reb Mendel of Rimanov saying: Why do we see good innocent children who stray from the Torah when they grow up? It can be because the food they ate, though kosher in every aspect, was purchased with money earned dishonestly, and this contaminates the neshama like treif food.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The rambam said it too on his letter to a yemininte rav when he sent him his sefikos in emunah he told him to Chk the schochets knife because only MAchalos assoros can make you ask questions like that

Anonymous said...

similarly i heard a Rabbi say he heard from his rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky that a school that gets funds dishonestly cannot be machanach its students in a proper way