[Avodah] bitul

[Eli Turkel]

First of all, AFAIK (as someone else mentioned), bitul only occurs
when there is a davar issur involved.  Second, we don't do bitul
intentionally.  For both of these reasons the cookie is dairy, and
can't be eaten after meat.

Is it obvious that bitul only applies when an issur is involved please
give sources. As to the second point the question is what is meant by
doing bitul intentionally. The cookies are already made. RMF paskens
that ice cream is okay in spite of various nonkosher jelling agents.
His entire teshuva concerns the question of whether bitul applies. He
ignores the question of whether one can give a hechsher or buy such a
product lechatchila. Hence, he obvioisly does not consider these
commercial products as a case of doing bitul intentionally

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Eli Turkel