[Avodah] popcorn/kytnyot.

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> RZS:
>> But an issur is an issur
> 
> It's not an issur it's a cheshash! rules rre completey different for a
> ch'shash and are being misapplied
> 
> EG See YD 89 re: fish blood and mother's milk where there is a Maris ayin
> issue. Once it falls in a tavshil it's completely muttar nless/until it
> forms a majority.

Look at what you just wrote: "unless it forms a majority".  In other
words if it's not batel berov it remains assur, even though the issur
is only because of mar'is ho'ayin.  The same thing applies here.
Kitniyos is assur because people might confuse one "daysa" with another.
Now that it's assur it can only become mutar by being batel berov.
The bean that you see floating in the soup is not batel; you can see it!
Therefore it's obvious that you can't eat it.  But the taam of the bean
that went into the soup, or the kitniyos oil that fell in, can't be seen
so it's batel.   Fish blood is a liquid, like kitniyos oil, so it's not
shayach to remove it from a mixture once it's in.



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