[Avodah] Rav Yisroel Belsky on Anisakis Worms

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 05:28:37PM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> 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.

: 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)

Isn't that the whole basis of the position we've discussed besheim the Gra
and RAYKook?

Since we don't know, we can only extrapolate lechumerah. And if we see the
science in a way that brings us to a kulah, we have to be concerned that
perhaps there is more going on than we're aware of.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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