Kashrus Klass: What is Glatt?

0:00He realized this is not the right point, but we've got to make a book of yours. And he made the code of Jewish law, all of those that devalued some of the code of Jewish law. He, at the same time, just by divine providence, with no way of knowing a few thousand miles away, in Poland, a person by the name of a famous Jewish, someone who reads of your people, we've got your being Jewry, Ashkenazah Jewry. He was writing the same thing. He was writing a code of Jewish law. He realized that the system was not going to work. It's too complex for everybody. By divine providence, he was already into the book. He was already writing this new code of Jewish law. And somebody brought him a, the early writings of a verse of coward. He brought him this spider show. He brought him the shocker of the spider. What would have been of the spider from the great reviews of Cairo. Of course, they didn't know what existed. But they brought him a manuscript of this book.

1:02When he saw the book, he decided that instead of continuing on his project, he is going to make notes, wherever, reviews of Cairo, who was the head of a spider Jewry, writes something different than Ashkenazah Jewry, or Ashkenazah Jewry, he will write an amundation, a glass of it. And thereby making one book. Now, this is a great, at the time, the necessity for it was not so. It was God preparing 400 years later for history. Because at the time, there was no integration between the spider and the Ashkenazah. There was nothing to do with the church. They were territoryally apart. There was no connection. Absolutely zero. But what it did is it planted the seeds. At hundreds of years later, you would have the fusing of the Jewish people back together again. That's what they were doing.

2:03Therefore, it's just an introduction of the shock. That's why it's called, if you have one book for all of Jews, even though you get a different alohad, but if you have one book, it brings everybody together. The Joseph and the Erymah had an argument. One of their arguments was regarding meat. When you prepare meat, when you slaughter a cow, according to the Talmud, if you go back to the days of the Talmud, the Gomorrah says that all cows, when you slaughter the cow, you could assume the animal is healthy and kosher. You don't have to check the lungs. It's a presumption. It's a presumption because most of the animals are healthy. The Gomorrah says most animals are healthy. Now, here you have alohad doesn't change, but science changes. History changes. But that is, we don't know why. You could see, historically, just like we know, that people have asthma today. And it got worse. In animals, you could see throughout history, a clear deterioration of the lungs of the animals.

3:07Where some, where some, where some, where some, where some, where some, why not? But that's the fact. And therefore already, in the times of the Shokhanarach, they already wrote that you have to check the lungs. Now, our lungs are even worse than they were then, but you have to check the lungs. They were too interpretation, not too interpretation, too customs in terms of how you have to check the lungs. The Bacias have held the author of the Shokhanarach. He held that after you slaughter the animal. Okay, you put your hands. They, you take the lungs, the Shokhan, or the person who tracks it, whatever. He puts his hands in the lungs. The lungs have to be so totally separate from the rest of the body of the animal. It can be, theoretically, it should be like the lungs are independent. They expand, they contract, they expand, they contract, they should not be connected to any of the tissue that surrounds it. That's a perfectly healthy animal. That's an ideal animal.

4:08That's called glat. Glat kosher. Glat means smooth. Glat is Yiddish. A galat is Yiddish. That means it's basically smooth. And that means that the lungs are perfectly smooth. The lung itself is smooth. It has no lesions on it. And it has no connection points. Okay, that is the ideal. That is what the Bacias have held. Even though you're not eating the lungs. It tells it's just a healthy animal. The health of the animal. Just like you can't have mad cow jumping, but that's why you can't have mad cow disease generally as a champion of kosher cow, because it couldn't get to that point. It wouldn't be healthy enough to be slaughtered. Okay, so now, the remote health, not like that. The remote health, that there could be some lesions as long as lesion that's on the lung, could be peeled away. And the lungs underneath this healthy. So if you have a booboo, sometimes when you have a scab, if you peel away the scab underneath this healthy skin,

5:09or enough of a good healthy lung underneath. So the dashkinazim considered that to be still glat. If I peel away the booboo, everybody hopes you have to check the lungs. If I peel away the booboo, the blem, the lesion, and there's a hole, you would hold it's not kosher. We would hold it's not glat, I'm sorry. We would hold it's not glat. If it's a hole in the lung, the animal's trache. That's 40% of animals, 4 out of 10 animals have a hole in the lung, forget about it. Those are sent to trache, everybody agrees. Then you have, if you peel away the lesion, there's a hole, but the lesion was there. So that, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. If you peel away the lesion, the lesion is there, so that would be not glat. It's not glat, which our custom in America is not to eat. The lung is still breathing, it's functioning. So that we wouldn't call that glat glat is, where you, pichraschkinazim, is where you peel it away,

6:09and this healthy tissue underneath, so we say that that's good enough, that's something. That's good. In a perfect world, the sphardic minute, what's called the banyosef, is that the lungs are totally smooth, and you could enjoy the animal. You could eat it, and that's what they're putting on, when they're saying that the animal is basial safe, what we're saying is that some sphardic are strict, not all sphardic are strict. Some sphardic are strict that they want an animal that the shokhi said, or the checkers said, that this animal is totally smooth, and therefore it gets a sticker of basial safe. Only 10%, if what is honest, only 10 to 15% of the meat, is going to be basial safe. Thank you. Thank you. So sphardic. It's sphardic for yourself that you would not be obligated to boy that piece of meat. But it is a sticker to tell the sphardic, and they would prefer that piece of meat. Right. Okay. How much is it? Thank you. For the use of it. In our world, we're not selling it that way, therefore it's just an attraction. If you were in a Syrian community,

7:10but they're only going to buy that, you would have a premium. Sometimes it's not really, because you don't have the demand of the level and exclusiveness of it. So it's not but an inferior should cost much more. In theory, if you had a community that was only, it's like supply and demand. If you were demanding only that, then you're going to get a premium. So you're right in Syrian communities, there's going to be a premium, because you're not selling the other. So it would depend on that. Okay. With that introduction, you always have to know about that. You always have to know about that. You always have to know about that. You always have to know about that. You always have to know about that. You always have to know about that.