{"id":873,"date":"2008-12-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/jewish_action\/2008\/next_stop_bombay_the_life_of_a_wandering_mashgiach\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:21:49","slug":"next_stop_bombay_the_life_of_a_wandering_mashgiach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/jewish-world\/people\/next_stop_bombay_the_life_of_a_wandering_mashgiach\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop, Bombay! The Life of a Wandering Mashgiach"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ou-images\/content\/RotationofIMGP0655.jpg\")
Dr. Avraham Meyer\u2019s idea of a dream vacation is exploring his Manchester, England backyard and getting to sleep in his own bed for more than three nights in a row. For close to two decades, Dr. Meyer, the Orthodox Union\u2019s (OU) Senior European rabbinic field representative (RFR), has been hopping planes, trains, taxis and cars each week, traversing cities all across Europe. Despite the incessant traveling, language barriers and frequently lost luggage, Dr. Meyer, a Chassidic Jew who holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), confesses that he loves his job. <\/p>\n
This year alone, Dr. Meyer\u2019s work has taken him to India, Japan and \u201cany European country you care to name.\u201d No matter the location, he visits manufacturing plants where foods and ingredients of all kinds are produced, including chocolate, rice, cheese, milk powder, food coloring and omega-3 oil. \u201cThe plants interest me; the people interest me; the countries interest me,\u201d says Dr. Meyer. <\/p>\n
He usually conducts plant audits and checks both raw materials on site as well as the documents relating to their origin and use at the plant. He also hunts for any raw materials that shouldn\u2019t be there. In addition, Dr. Meyer is called on to do \u201cfirefighting,\u201d that is, troubleshooting any kashrut-related problems that arise.<\/p>\n
Dr. Meyer makes a point of brushing up on a country\u2019s history, geography and culture, and makes sure to keep abreast of which team is on the top of the soccer league on a given week. In his eighteen years as an RFR, he\u2019s also gained extensive knowledge of the technology involved in every aspect of food processing. \u201cThe people I speak with are primarily engineers and scientists; it\u2019s the sort of peer group I don\u2019t find in my local kehillah,\u201d he says with his trademark whimsicality.<\/p>\n
It seems Dr. Meyer caught the travel bug early on in life. Born in a fishing village on the west coast of Scotland to a Presbyterian family, he grew up in Edinburgh and Yorkshire, England. His father was a hardworking country doctor and his mother was a teacher. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship from MIT in 1964, Dr. Meyer pursued his interest in chemical engineering. While studying in Boston, Dr. Meyer also discovered Judaism. \u201c[Conversion] seemed the logical thing to do at the time,\u201d he says. \u201cI used a simple engineering approach to choosing a religion. I\u2019m an engineer…. I researched for the truth and a working system built upon it, and found one.\u201d <\/p>\n
Dr. Meyer met his wife, Henye, then a student at Brandeis University, through his close connection to the Bostoner Rebbe. After his conversion at the age of twenty-five, Dr. Meyer adopted the minhagim of the Bostoner Chassidim and continued pursuing a career in chemical engineering. \u201cThe Bostoner Rebbe encouraged his university graduates to use their training rather than discard it as [not Jewish]. The rebbe\u2019s shul was filled with the best of Harvard and MIT,\u201d says Dr. Meyer. \u201cIt was an amazingly invigorating peer group.\u201d Dr. Meyer later also aligned himself with the Klausenberger Rebbe, inspired by \u201chis silver tongue and genius.\u201d<\/p>\n
Putting his degree to good use, Dr. Meyer worked for various corporations, including Texas Instruments and Raychem Corporation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI found in [my work in] kashrus a way to give something back in exchange for what I have received from Yiddishkeit.”<\/div>\n
\u201cThe field is one of the broadest, most interesting engineering disciplines that one could use to do almost anything,\u201d he says. In 1985, the Meyers moved to the United Kingdom and settled in the Manchester Orthodox community. Dr. Meyer lectured on chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham until Dayan Osher Westheim of the Manchester Beth Din suggested he apply his talents to the world of kashrut and promptly offered him a position as mashgiach for the bet din\u2019s kashrut services. He gladly acquiesced, eager to use his skills to help the Jewish community. Five years later, the OU presented him with an RFR position covering Europe. <\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Meyer\u2019s brilliant,\u201d says Rabbi Nahum Rabinowitz, OU senior rabbinic coordinator. \u201cHe\u2019s extremely well spoken and proficient in all kinds of areas and able to speak with professionals in food manufacturing about any issue. \u2026 He has outstanding expertise.\u201d <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just Dr. Meyer\u2019s scientific acumen that impresses the kashrut staff and plant administrators. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s fascinating,\u201d says Rabbi Rabinowitz. \u201cYou can talk to him about the arts, science, culture, history; there are very few areas he\u2019s not familiar with. He also has a phenomenally dry sense of humor.\u201d Apparently, the RFR is also a good writer. \u201cWhen he sends in a report [after conducting plant inspections] it\u2019s never cut and dried,\u201d says Rabbi Rabinowitz. \u201cHe provides detailed information about the geography and history of the region\u2014and even notes which side of the hotel has the best view. Dr. Meyer takes pride in his work and it shows.\u201d <\/p>\n
An Orthodox Jew Makes Do in Bangalore<\/b>
\nA job on the run comes with its unique challenges, especially if you\u2019re an observant Jew. In order to keep kosher in far-flung regions of the world, an RFR like Dr. Meyer has to call upon his ingenuity. \u201cI usually take along a particularly ghastly packed meal in a can and stick it under the hot water tap in the hotel. If you take a little kettle, you can boil an egg and spaghetti in it as well. Shabbos gets even more interesting. Nowadays you can\u2019t carry a little bottle of wine on the plane like you used to,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you stick it in your luggage, it\u2019s likely to break and you end up with purple clothing. So, I found a one hundred millimeter bottle in a pharmacy, which would be enough for one kos. If you really get stuck, which I have, you go out and buy some grapes and jump up and down on them until you have grape juice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since shuls are a rarity in the remote regions he visits, Dr. Meyer davens \u201cby the kotel\u201d in his hotel room. \u201cBefore Shabbos, I make sure to set up the lights [in a place] where they aren\u2019t going to set off any smoke detectors.\u201d This is a lesson he learned the hard way, after setting off a fire alarm during Havdalah. <\/p>\n
Dr. Meyer manages to penetrate the language barriers in Europe and East Asia; he \u201cgets by\u201d in German and French. \u201cI like to observe how things differ from one place to another,\u201d he says. \u201cOver the years, one learns quite a lot [about the varying cultures]. I come home and tell my family plenty of stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the constant time away from home can\u2019t be easy on the Meyer family members, it\u2019s a sacrifice they don\u2019t mind making. According to this wandering RFR, his family has been very supportive of the important role he plays for Klal Yisrael. \u201cI found in [my work in] kashrus a way to give something back in exchange for what I have received from Yiddishkeit,\u201d says Dr. Meyer, who is constantly in touch with his family through regular e-mail reports of his journeys. One of his recent e-dispatches from India reads: \u201cSee attached photo of a Rajasthani nomad encampment in Bangalore, in Karnataka, India\u2026. Laundry came back in a beautiful wicker basket with a lace cover and a card saying: \u2018Freshly laundered\u2019 with a yellow rose attached. That doesn\u2019t happen in my house!\u201d <\/p>\n
Despite the difficult parts of his job, Dr. Meyer reports that he derives great pleasure from determining that a company is successfully fulfilling its obligations and that the OU programs are running well. He would readily agree that his winning relationship with the OU is an obvious case of great chemistry. <\/p>\n
Bayla Sheva Brenner is senior writer in the OU Communications and Marketing Department.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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