Can glass vessels be kashered for Pesach?
Synopsis
Major Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide. The Mechaber says glass does not absorb and needs only washing. The Rema says glass cannot be kashered even by hagalah, and that is the Ashkenazi practice.
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