[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[David Riceman]

Micha Berger wrote:
> It is impossible for the minhag to work as a minhag. The economy doesn't
> work. It fails as a Categorical Imperative.
>   
Not all minhagim fit this paradigm.  Take glatt, back in the day when 
Jewish butchers sold mainly to Jewish consumers, so that every treifah 
was a monetary loss, and back in small towns where they slaughtered one 
or  two cows a week.  As I understand it, those are the conditions under 
which the custom originated, and when the meat wasn't glatt the people 
who were makpid simply didn't eat meat that Shabbos.  But extend the 
custom to an entire kehillah and the economics fails.

David Riceman