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Dear Rabbi Simon, I wonder if you can help with this query. My daughter has been given a medication for anxiety around flying. Apparently it contains grape juice – it’s a liquid medication (homeopathic). It’s not marked kosher, so wondering if she would be able to use it? Many thanks, Julie Dear Julie, Liquid homeopathic medication with a grape juice…

Dear Rabbi Simon, My wife bought two plastic jugs. There are a few plastic cups which came with them. She intends to use them for water and fruit juice and treat them as parev. We would like to know if we can wash them in either the milky sink or in the meaty sink. Would they always have to be…

Dear Rabbi Simon, Are breadsticks bread requiring the blessing of HaMotzi or crackers requiring Mezonot? Many thanks, Baruch Hi Baruch, Generally, breadsticks should be regarded as similar to crackers, requiring the berakhah of mezonot. Only if one was to eat enough to constitute a meal would s/he need to treat the breadsticks as bread (including washing one’s hands ritually and…

Dear Rabbi Simon, In my nearly-Pesach cookathon, I by mistake tasted the juice under the chicken for seasoning (a tiny spoon smaller than coffee spoon), forgetting I was going to eat milky. Do I now have to wait the full three hours before I can do so? Or can I wait less if I did not eat the meat and…