[Avodah] Mayim Acharonim, Chova?

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 09:26:23PM +0200, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
: My take-away from the article: A perfect example of people being
: machmir about a minhag/d'rabbanan bein adam lemaqom while probably
: violating a doreitta or two regarding how to treat people.

Not really. If she is an Ashkenazis, she was machmir. (If a Sepaharadis
she correctly followed iqar hadin.) But it was they who violated the BALC,
and nothing to do with a chumerah leading to problems.

This din is an example of Ashk vs Seph possibly being based on EY
vs Bavel. In the Tosefta and Y-mi, the only reason given for mayim
acharonim is salt. And so, there would be little reson for it once we
stopped using those kinds of salt. It is only in the Bavli that mayim
acharonim and mayim rishonim are compared, implying the latter is also
about tum'ah. And it would seem that Ashk maintained EY's more pragmatic
approach, whereas Seph are more machmir.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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