Is it forbidden for a Non-Jew to help Jews cook Kosher food?

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Shaina

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So I asked a previous question regarding my non-Jewish friend and inviting her over for Shabbos, now I have another question, I would like to invite her over this coming up Friday so she can experience it with my observant family and I, because she has told me numerous times how much she's interested Judaism and all of our practices. My family is Orthodox. From a halachic perspective would it be forbidden for her to help my mother and I actually prepare any of the food for the meal? I may be wrong, but isn't it ok if we are involved in the preparation as well (which of course we would be)?
wow some of you guys who aren't even Jewish at all answer, lol...This is supposed to be a question for Jewish people
 
Non Jews are allowed to cook kosher food. Sometimes if they aren't familiar with the rules they can be supervised by a rabbi, in your case your family can make sure she doesn't break any rules.
 
I haven't heard of anyone being against that. It should be fine. I'm LDS (Mormon) and that would be fine according to our beliefs.

EDIT:
oooh, haha... you're asking for a jews perspective. I guess you would know more than me on that one.
 
From a Jewish Website I found:

Kosher cooking has a lot of ingredients and
one of the most important ones is the cook. Non - Jews
are a factor in the observance of the dietary laws.


Several rabbinic safeguards that govern interactions
with non-Jews relate to the food we eat.


Two reasons stand out.

1) One thing leads to another. Food is an important
lubricant of social relationships. The Rabbis enacted
these laws as a response to a Biblical warning that
socializing eventually leads to intermarriage and even
idolatry. Centuries later, their wisdom is apparent.

2) Accidents can lead to eating not kosher foods. A Jew
cannot place responsibility for what he eats on a non-Jew.
He must accept it himself. Unlike another Jew the
non-Jew is not commanded to keep kosher.

They apply when a person who is not himself
required to keep kosher is handling the food.

Cooking by Non-Jews

The Rabbinic rules ask us to keep a respectful social
distance from non-Jews for the reasons stated above.

The name of this requirement is Bishul Yisroel which
literally means Jewish cooking. The name of the
complementary prohibition is Bishul Akum - cooking
by a non-Jew.
 
HA HA WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is your God so unkind? If he is then do you really want to believe he's waiting for you at the pearly gates? If he is he might be waiting there with a boot on his foot to kick your ass down to Hell.
 
Not at all. Non Jews work in the back of kitchens ALL THE TIME and for caterers. A Jew just needs to turn on the oven and watch to make sure she does everything the Kosher way (i.e. not mixing milk and meat...)


Edit: to clarify. She can turn on the ovens if you don't care about Bishul Yisroel or Pas Yisroel.
 
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