Leket Israel
Leket Israel, Israel's National Food Bank Leket Israel was founded in 2003 to rescue excess, nutritious food that would have otherwise been destroyed and redirected to people in need. Serving as the country's largest food bank and food rescue network, Leket Israel works to alleviate the problem of nutritional insecurity. Each year, with the help of 80,000 volunteers, Leket Israel rescues over 2,300,000 meals and 64 million lbs of produce and perishable goods to 415,000 weekly recipients. Food, that would have otherwise gone to waste, is redistributed to nearly 300 nonprofit partners caring for the needy. Leket Israel offers cooperative purchasing, nutrition education, and food safety projects to further assist our partners.www.leket.org
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Sep 23, 2026
Manya MarcusHOST
I don't want to mess that up.
Joseph GitlerGUEST
Okay, so I spend most of my time, I founded, and I'm the voluntary chairman of an Israeli organization called Leket Israel, the National Food Bank.
Joseph GitlerGUEST
And essentially what we do, a little less so in times of war, but essentially what we are is a food rescue operation which looks for healthy, safe, nutritious sources of food that are going to end up in landfills for a whole variety of reasons.
Joseph GitlerGUEST
And we figure out how to get our hands on that food, which we are given free of charge.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Rabbi Yossi is saying the same thing, that laket is only when you do a maise kitzirah, But bottom line is, what do you see? That Rabbi Yossi thinks that how something is detached, how something is cut off matters.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
So just like by Leket, it matters that it has to be dafqa through a ma'isik tzira, so too by resh tzages, it has to be dafqa through a giza.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
If it's through a power wash, that's not called being gozez, and melech that's not going to be chayiv in resh tzages.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
That's rabiosi's shita.