[Avodah] : Chometz milking question

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:14:04AM -0700, Daniel M. Israel wrote:
>> The Magein Avraham (445:5) and the Taz say that this doesn't apply to
>> chameitz, where we uniquely worry about less than a kezayis.

>> The Shach, the Gra, the SA haRav (445:10) and the Bi'ur Halakhah (s"q 2)
>> are meiqilim.

> Perhaps it is the MA and the Taz who are being machmirim?

I wasn't being that exact in my language. I just meant that they were
being more meiqil than those who came before them. The Shach came before
the MA, but my general feel when I wrote those words was earlier acharonim
(one of shenei goremim produces chameitz) vs later ones (not chameitz).

As to the question you're raising... it's subjective. If I hold like X,
then to me X is baseline and those who say Y are meiqilim; if I hold like
Y than Y is baseline and those who say X are machmirim. The only way
to get to what you describe is where there is no machloqes, or everyone
follows lehalakhah one side of the machloqes, but some take on a personal
beyond-halachic chumerah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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