[Avodah] Phantom Chazal

[Allen Gerstl]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:13:14 -0400
R' "Moshe Yehuda Gluck" <mgluck at gmail.com>
Wrote: Subject: [Avodah] Phantom Chazal?

>"One who prohibits the permitted will end up permitting the prohibited."
>Any takers?

This isn't the exact quote that R"MYG is seeking but it appears on point.
See Avot 1:16 : Rabban Gamliel Omer... Ve-al tabeh le-asser umadot.

See the Baretenura etc.: Being machmir in the amount of maaser rather than 
measuring the amount correctly results in the unexpected consequence of  
having rendered one's peirot as permissible but   the maaser then becomes 
problematic as it then has a mixture of maaser and tevel (i.e. the excess 
that is neither tithed produce nor maaser). This follows appropriately after 
Rabban Gamliel first says "asei lecha rav ve-histalek min ha ha-safeik". The 
Barenura refers us  to "Ha-marbeh be maasrotav, peirotav metukanim 
u-maaserotav mekulalim" (Eruvin 50a)  (also cited by RSRH in his commentary 
on Avot).

The logical consequence of a chumra in one area of halacha may be a kula in 
a related area.

KT
Eliiyahu