Rabbanut is a garbage hechsher, if you can even call it that. They rubber stamp anything with the shvachest hechsher from america, yoshon or not. Every american chocolate bar (twix, etc.) carries a rabbanut, as do products arriving from the US with nothing but a triangle K- again- rubber stamped by the rabbanut. Anyone who has some silly notion that the plain Rabbanut is a hechsher in anything but name is simply ignorant of the facts on the ground. The rabbanut is so bad that a Rov I know personally as being a tremendous meikel in every area of halachah told someone to kasher their pot when they realized they’d used fleishig rabbanut chicken soup mix. The only people in IL who eat Rabbanut are either not frum or beshitta crazy. The only people who eat it from the US are either ignorant or beshitta crazy. No one, and I mean literally no one, holds plain rabbanut is a hechsher in any respect. I’ve written a lengthy response before as to why. In short, the rabbanut was developed to be a most minimal standard from a legal perspective, so that people could not legally hang up a kosher sign and serve you meat they shot in the head. The body who formed it realized that the people whom they were targeting would not comply with anything approaching rigorous standards, so they purposely made it a terrible hechsher so that at least you couldn’t be served actual tarfus. Only a fool eats rabbanut- it is literally someich on shittos yachids and kulos that are well outside the accepted spectrum of halachah.
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