[Avodah] Just How hot is Yad Soledes Bo anyway?

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Rn Chana:
> Regarding RMB's question about a more accurate measurement - the point that
> I was trying to make in an earlier post is that while in the days of the
> gemora, I agree it was almost impossible to have a reasonably accurate
> measurement as nobody was going to try testing on a baby. Today however,
> when we have medical literature to peruse, and thermometers, I would have
> thought that by accessing the medical literature we would indeed be able to
> arrive at a reasonably accurate measurement.  Not because the doctors have
> done any testing on babies, but because there have been enough accidents
> with coffee and tea and bathwater etc for them to have been able to piece
> together a reasonably accurate picture, for good medical reasons.

If YSB or kreiso shell  tinoq is a mere proxy for the threshold of bishul

Why not test "bishul" DIRECTLY!

Lemashal

Coal miners used canaries to test the air quality in the mine

Would you design a scientific measurement to emulate the canary or would
you desing it to measure the air quality directly?

Nimshal
So: Why measure an indirect proxy when we now have the technology to
test the threshold of cooking the food directly!

The main reason we use batteil beshishim instead of nosein ta'am is
that the Rema says the minhag is to no longer rely upon the testimony
of te'imas eino-yehudi.

Otherwise he would have AFAIK concured with the Rambam, Mechabeir et
al. To continue testing directly instead of indirectly.

Gutn Hanukkah
RRW

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