[Avodah] bittul

[AES]

>>>I assume that if we know that a piece of treif meat fell in a pot with
60 kosher pieces many people would forgo the steak even though
halachically it is kosher because of bittul. There are even shitot
that one can eat all 61 pieces (not at once) since each is a safek.
Again I assume many would forgo that privelege.>>>

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R' Reisman discussed this a few weeks ago during his navi shiur.  He
said that there was a machlokes, with the Pischei Teshuvah holding
that if one wishes to be machmir, it is commendable, and the Toras
H'Asham holding that if someone is machmir in a situation where there
is no machlokes about whether it is permissible to eat or not, it is
apikorsus to be machmir.

R' Reisman then quoted the Bnei Yissaschar (regarding the situation of
a piece of treif meat that falls into a pot with sixty kosher pieces
of meat) that the piece of treif meat had a "nitzutz kedusha" in it
and it was meant to be eaten - and it is a mitzva to davka eat that
piece of meat (with the rest of the meat).

R' Reisman mentioned that, while there is an inyan not to eat a piece
of food about which a shaila was asked, that is only when there is a
machlokes about the permissibility of the food - not in the situation
above where the halacha is 100% clear and unequivocal that a piece of
treif meat that falls into a pot of sixty kosher pieces of meat is
permissible.

KT,
Aryeh