[Avodah] Ugli Fruit as a Siman

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:32:50AM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote to Areivim:
:> It's called an ugli fruit.  It's a cross between a grapefruit and a
:> tangerine.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugli_fruit

(And thus "May our enemies have an ugly year" as a siman milsa.)

: Can one use a murkav for a siman?

R' Meir Shapiro wrote that the significance of using bee honey in
particular (as opposed to date honey as devash or some other sweetener)
is that the gemara uses a proof from a pasuq to show that it is
mutar despite having bee parts disolved in it. Thus, bee honey
is an example of letaheir es havemei'im.

Using a murkav, that heter can come from a maaseh issur, arguably makes
a similar point. (Although I'm just using that an excuse to share the
previous vertl.)

GCT!
-Micha

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