[Avodah] To DE or to D no E?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:37:19PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: When you look at SA you see many halachos in which we are machmir because
: "we are not beqi'I'm" anymore.
: EG how fatty Is meat or how lean legabei contamination via melicha.

These are arts, learned only through shimush. Once the chain of shimush
is lost, it's pretty hard to recreate.

: What OU seems to be doing is lechatchila suggesting we can no longer be
: beqi'I'm between nosein ta'am and nat bar nat.

This is not an art, but knowledge that can be easily conveyed in text. I
fail to see the similarity.

: So we should surrender another valid kula by lechatchila "dumbing down"
: which means to me we shouid force the issue of no longer distinguishing...
...
: A simple post on OU's website could educate the masses. Artscroll's book
: on kashrus has it.

But no one is saying that milchig vs nosein ta'am is to be ignored.
Rather, the OU is saying that they have far more people who look for
their symbol on package labels than read their web site, talk to their
rabbi, or would otherwise learn what the DE means.

You're confusing a corporate decision not to take responsibility to
have an educztion campaign they can't do well with a halachic decision
that will set precedent.

-Micha

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