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Can you reuse store-bought glass jars for storage, or do they require tevilat keilim?
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Can you reuse a glass jar from store-bought food products for your own storage, or does it require tevilat keilim first? Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer. Do you have more kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments!
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I bought a jam that comes in a glass jar. When
I finish the jam, can I repurpose this jar to
use it for storage for other things or will
I need to do tevilat keilim, will I need to
immerse it in a mikvah first before I can use it?
Now, there are actually different opinions about
this. Rav Moshe Feinstein has a teshuva (answer)
where he writes that in this type of a case,
one could be lenient. It does not require tevilah,
specifically if it's glass. And he says that
since glass. The requirement to tovel is a mitzvah
mid'rabanan, when there are doubts, other reasons,
other mitigating factors, one could be lenient.
He says that it's not considered a "kli," it's
not considered a utensil. It's considered
like a peel around the food. So since the
glass doesn't serve as a normal utensil that
you use for putting in and taking out food,
it's just meant as a storage for this food item,
and it's meant to be thrown away afterwards,
the person who decides to reuse it,
they're the one who make it now into
utensil. It's considered like the Yid, like the
Jew made the utensil. Others, though have other
reasons why they're lenient to allow a person to
use the jar so long as it has the jam in it. But
they recommend that once you finish the jam, if
you indeed want to use it again, you should tovel
it. The Sredei Eish writes like this, that
one should title it if he's going to use the
jar. But until that point, they both say that one
could be lenient to use the jar without tevliah.