[Avodah] Beis Yosef Meat

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:06:46AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>>> However, RYL asked RSM, who is *the* authority on how meat is shechted
>>> lemaaseh. If R' Mandel said that all Seph meat is kosher to Ashk
> 
>> Nope.  He said that the meat which is sold in the USA as "Bet Yosef"
>> is kosher for both.  This says nothing about minhag Sefard, especially
>> as it was practised in EY in the days of the Old Yishuv or as it's
>> practised there today.
> 
> Actually, RSM's job is international.

Irrelevant.  His statement was about the "Bet Yosef" meat that is
common today in Flatbush.


> The whole chiluq I was trying to make is between the machloqes in theory
> and whether or not we have to be chosheish for any Seph actually using a
> heter an Ashk can't eat from. Thus my repeated "lemaaseh" in my earlier
> post, as in "I assume they lemaaseh do niqur and avoid shehiyah in ways
> that make that statement true."

I am almost 100% sure that that is false, and in Y'm it's false even for
Ashkenazim, since they follow minhag Sefard in this regard.  Though I
wouldn't go so far as to say that one *can't* eat it, just that it isn't
100% according to minhag Ashk, and allows things that minhag Ashk. is
not to allow.  It could be that this is only lechatchila, i.e. minhag A
is to cut more and S is to cut less, but once it's been butchered A'im
can still eat it.  And I can think of at least two other heterim.  But
I know that there are those in EY who avoid Yerushalmi meat for this
reason.


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