[Avodah] Yeast isn't chameitz

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> 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.)

I still don't get it.  You're assuming that there is an unquestioned
mesorah that shibolet shual is oats, and chadashim mikarov ba'u and
questioned that mesorah on the basis of science.  But that isn't so.
On the contrary, the main question is from Torah sources, and the
science just supports the question.  AFAIK the *only* reason to suppose
that sh"sh means oats is that Rashi translated it that way into French.
At best, that makes it a machlokes of Rashi against the Rambam and
whoever else translated it differently (not sure who those were; RSG?
Ibn Jannach?)


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