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🕍 Allowed by Jewish law 👍 Proper or honest 🧼 To make kosher
to kasher

to kasher

9.9
To make food or kitchen items follow Jewish law
  • verb
  • /ˈkæʃər/
translation icon : kosherizar
  • In order to prepare the brisket for dinner, we need to kasher it according to our traditions.

Examples

  • KCL - Do we have to kasher the shuls' kitchen?

    Blog text (21)

  • For the hands that kashered meat, fed me, and excused him.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Now suddenly the shul's kitchen became kosher without kashering?

    Blog text (21)

  • After using the pot for both meat and dairy, we must kasher it to make it suitable for future use.

  • The community center has a special procedure to kasher the kitchen before the holiday celebrations.

How Kosher

to kasher
9.9
to purify
30 4.6
to clean
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

kasher infinitive
kashered past
kashered past participle
kashering present participle
kashers third person singular

Etymology

Kasher comes from the Hebrew kashér, which means 'fit', and as a verb it means to make food or kitchen tools 'fit' for use under Jewish rules, for example by cleaning or treating pans. So to kasher a kitchen is to make it 'fit' for kosher cooking.