[Avodah] Bal Tashchit

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> In taaroves of z'vachim it's clear
> One lamb that is "qodesh" in a taaroves of 1,000 hullin, makes the entire
> heard useless.

Yes, because a lamb is a davar shebeminyan, and therefore cannot be batel,
so there can be no question what to do; the herd is *already* wasted and
useless, so destroying it is not bal tashchis, it's a mitzvah of removing
a michshol.

 
> There are many similar cases, and to me it bespeaks that if there is a
> halachic issue, destruction does NOT constitute a concern of bal tashchis.

But here we're talking about something that *is* batel, and halachically
permitted, but you want to stay inside shuras hadin and not eat it.  Do
you have to worry about what will happen to it?


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