[Avodah] timtum halev

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

Akiva Miller:
> As evidence for this, consider the situations where, because the issur
> is chashuv (example: a beriyah), Chazal said that it is never batel, even
> though by all normal halachos of taaruvos, it should indeed be batel. In
> such cases, I suggest, when Chazal said "it's too chashuv to be batel",
> what they meant was "it's so chashuv that the timtum of eating it is
> even worse than the timtum of discarding it."

I was thinking along the same lines

Halachah might mattir A dilutted issur
BUT
Certain individuals are more [spiritually] sensitive and NEED to be
machmir upon themselves even then

And Akiva gave us the rationale - it's more chashuv to such a sensitive
person. Maybe due to their palates being more refined or to their
ruchniyyus being more attenuated, whatever...

ZP
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