[Avodah] Avoiding Sefeikos, Ben Pekuah and Fruit from ChuL

[Meir Rabi]

: It was suggested that since breeding herds of BP would sidestep
: Hilchos Shechitah,Tereifos, Cheilev and Gid, it must be a non preferred
: option.

Reb Micha says
SA YD 13:4 says that the child of two BP would require shechitah
medrabbanan.
But the general question of whether it's a bad thing to engineer an
avoidance of a qiyum asei in order to avoid poasible issurim is itself
an interesting one. It reminds me of the people on-list who preferred
eating non-Israeli produce so as to avoid making mistakes in hafrashas
teruman uma'aser. Rather than learning how to be mafrish and thereby
get those mitzvos, a holier fruit, and aiding the Jewish economy in EY.

I should like to make the following observations:
Requiring Shechita MiDeRabbanan does not promote it to the preferred Torah
option, if there is such a thing.
Fruit from EY can be assumed to have greater Qeddusha and certainly
supports industry and the economy in EY, two very good reasons to embrace
fruit from EY in spite of their increased risk of MitHaBaAretz

However, BP has only upsides, unless we suggest that Shechita has a
positive spiritual value, as does removing Gid and Cheilev.



Best,

Meir G. Rabi
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