[Avodah] Rav Yisroel Belsky on Anisakis Worms

[Rich, Joel]

There is no need to claim that Chazal were ignorant of science (although they did not have microscopes to view items not visible to the naked eye):
Chazal had a tradition about many things, what was muttar and what was osur, that was part of the Oral Tradition. They may have given a reason in the G'moro for the tradition, but the tradition exists independently of any reason they gave.
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I have seen this explanation given in a number of instances, but isn't the logical implication of this that extrapolation from the reasons to new cases is not guaranteed to give the correct result ( or put differently, isn't any extrapolation a safek)
KT
Joel Rich
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