[Avodah] Mitzva or Hechsher Mitzva

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:33:54PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
> But based on what I have sent out from the article at  
> http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/rmjBroydeTerumah.pdf  there is no  
> need to do this, so what are you accomplishing when if comes to  
> hafrachas Terumah...

Actuallym, he cites a machloqes. Very relevent to the Litvaks among us,
the AhS requires taking maaser. And others might be inclined to follow
RAYK or the CI. Even the SA (YD 33:12) doesn't clearly permit fruit
outside EY bizman hazeh w/out hafrashah, as the Tzevi leTzadiq appears
to limit this heter to cases where final processing was outside EY.

R' Isur Zalman Meltzer's heter relies on the assumption that much of
the crop is owned by non-Jews, an assumption I wouldn't count on today.

IOW, RMJB brings strong grounds to pasqen lehaqeil, but he doesn't say
it's open and shut.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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