Q. Hello Rav, What should we do if we find a parve utensil (eg. knife) or the parve Sponge in the dairy (or meat) sink and there is a possibility that it was lying there while other diary items were cleaned in the sink with hot water? Thank you.

A. Since there are several different doubts involved, such as if there were dairy items or not, if the temperature of the water was indeed 45 degrees, if they were used on that particular day (Ben Yomo) or not, and others, one in need can be lenient.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a