[Avodah] schechtworthy

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:01:29PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: But I thought we were discussing precisely the case of hair covering,
: which isn't like the other examples.  Her going out with uncovered hair
: seems to me more like her eating treif, rather than feeding him treif;
: and we don't find that listed among the Das Moshe issues that justify
: divorce.

And in any case, this all started because the shocheit's job was saved
on the grounds that it was she who wasn't covering her hair, not that
the shocheit himself was violating halachic norm.

Which means that the whole question of whether it's grounds for a get --
while important in its own right as a discussion of hilkhos gittin -- is
tangential to the original issue. The Maharshag could have been basing
his pesaq on the idea that it would be atypical in their circles for a
husband to do so. We're talking about how halakhah is normally observed;
not what rights or duties the person technically has.

I still am looking for sources with details for the two anecdotes
I cited. That might help me understand RtCL unanswered question why
galoshes-wearing shochetim are a problem (in a mileau where that's
violating the uniform), which isn't an issue of violating how halakhah
is observed (veering lequlah from local pesaq or actually not conforming
to the din altogether in a way that is uncommon), as far as I could tell.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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