[Avodah] timtum halev

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:08:00PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
: As I thought I said before, I don't think that these rishonim thought it 
: was a metaphysical issue, I think they thought that non-kosher food is 
: physically different and produces milk which is physically different, 
: and that there is a presumption that a non-Jew eats non-kosher food.

Sorry for missing that. Now what about the implications...

Given that they thought there was a physical difference in the milk that
caused a character change,
and
Given that we could prove there is no such difference (assuming we can),
and
Given that it isn't taken as an issur, but as pragmatic advice...

would the whole concept be ignorable as based on a mistake in metzi'us?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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