[Avodah] Psak about Muscovy Duck from the Rabbinical Institute for Kosher Supervision and Research

[Zev Sero]

Ben Waxman wrote:
>> So they're willing to say that R Shmuel Salant ate treif?

> Why is that such a big deal? There are plenty of people, including 
> rabbanim, who have eaten or eat products which are heter michira , 
> non-halav yisrael, non-glatt, which use gelatin, etc etc. and other 
> rabbis who declare that these products are treif.

Lo ye'uneh letzadik kol aven.   If you know someone ate something, and
you maintain that it's treif, then you're saying that he has no such
protection.  This is even stronger if, as in this case, he deliberately
ate it in order to demonstrate its kashrut.

I'm reminded of a story about a machlokes between the Ksav Sofer and
the Divrei Chaim over a mikveh that the KS supported and the DC proclaimed
to be pasul.  It ended when the KS wrote to the DC that "I was born from
such a mikveh".

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