[Avodah] timtum halev

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:34:12PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
: >Or that knowing that one ate these things beheter could make it easier
: >or them to try them again. Kind of like Chava -- "I touched the tree,
: >nothing happened, let's see what happens if I eat from it..."

: But then why would the Rashba make the remark about rahmanim ubayshanim? 
: In fact, what's the Rashba's objection at all? L'shitaso milk of a 
: non-Jew is permissible even to an adult.

Still, in all these cases it's where the identity of the meineqes [and
the kashrus of her diet] is known. Thus, there is no way to prove that 
the issue is inherent in the milk, rather than the influence of the
person, or of knowing of a bond to such people, of having had indirect
treif before, or... but whatever, of eventually knowing rather than
an inherent metaphysical mechanics.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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