[Avodah] bugs in fish

[Eli Turkel]

<<I haven't been following the bugs-in-fish issue closely, but where do you
stand on that?>>

Personally I am disturbed about a number of issues that haven't changed
physically in many years and nevertheless all of sudden poskim come
out with issurim.

To the best of my knowledge there has been no major changes in the way fish live
and are infested by worms in the recent past (lets ignore any changes
from the days
of chazal as nishtanu hateva). Yet all of some some poskim decide many
fish especially
from the wild are prohibited when they have been used for years.
There was an uproar a few years ago about cows in Israel and their
being different from
"standard cows". The same was with regard to the hair from India which
was used for
many years and there is no reason to think that the Indians have changed their
attitude towards the hair cutting.
There are other such cases which I refrain from discussing to limit the post.

I just find a general attitude where individuals all of a sudden
"discover" that there
is a problem with an act that has been accepted by the Jewish
community for years.
Then various poskim decide that what we have been doing is really wrong.

BTW I haven'y seen anyone deal with the issue of how could gedolim from previous
generations eat treif fish is we have the rule that G-d watches over the donkey
of R. Pinchas ben Yair and so certainly over the tzaddikim.


-- 
Eli Turkel