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

[Zev Sero]

Ben Waxman wrote:
> I never heard the story but from the quote you gave all the CS is saying 
> is that my community uses such a mikveh, this is a community of Torah 
> learners, and since this is our minhag, it must be kosher. But not that 
> "I am a tzaddik (or my father was a tzaddik) and therefore the mikvah 
> must be kosher.

No, that is not at all what the Ksav Sofer was saying.  That would not
have stopped the DC's campaign against the mikveh.  After all, he already
knew that the KS had endorsed it, and that didn't stop him.  It was only
when the KS informed him that he had personally been born from such a
mikveh, i.e. his mother had used one built to the same design, that the
DC called off his campaign.  He was not prepared to publicly call the
CS a boel nidah, and the KS a ben-hanidah.

 
> I have no doubt that the Beit Yosef would indeed say that the Rema ate 
> treif if the Rema ate non-glatt meat.

I don't know.  *Did* the Ramo ever eat non-glatt meat? 


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