[Avodah] Yeast isn't chameitz

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:23:38PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: Huh?  How is that related to science, or to lack of mesorah?  It's
: precisely the mesorah that questions the identification of "orez" with
: "rice", while the science of linguistics would seem to rule out such a
: question.

See <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol05/v05n073.shtml#12>, which I
wrote with NhR pp 52-54 open in front of me.

I do think I got it backwards, that RYBS insisted that we can't take for
granted that the gemara is talking about rice, at least in terms of how
we pasqen from it.

Still, even with that flip, it still runs counter his statement about
oats. In all 4 examples, the Brisker insistance was that halakhah can
only come from mesorah. (Even linguistic evidence had to come from a
matron who heard rebbe every day; not a language expert.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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