[Avodah] Bal Tashchit

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:34:00PM -0800, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: 1) If someone accidentally spills a drop of milk into a big pot of
: chicken soup, it is still for sure kosher because of bittul baRov. Are
: you obligated to serve the soup because of Bal Tashchit?

R' Yaakov Moshe haKohein Lessin, the Slabodka alumnus who was mashgiach at
YU (short bio <http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=28202>), famously
never finished a desert. As an excercise in self-discipline, there was
always a bit of cake (or whatever) left on his plate.

I repeated this story to someone, who asked my about bal tashchis in
wasting that last forkful of cake. I suggested that perhaps RYML
considered the excercise in perishus to be a proper use of the cake.

A similar answer would work here.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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