[Avodah] Farfetched Ukimtas

[Marty Bluke]

On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

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> I like the idea RETurkel repeated here some time ago that an oqimta is
> the gemara's way to construct a case where the stated law holds, and
> there are no counterveiling issues involved.
>
> Which might allow us to distinguish between dinim that have outlandish
> cases suggested, and a din in which could only apply in the outlandish
> case.
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> Here, the constraint isn't that there may be an overriding issue, it's
> that it is hard to imagine a situation where blood would fall on the
> floor of the azarah and not spread.


And it’s easy to imagine that the grass is poisonous or the man is a
prisoner (example from bava Basra)? This ukimta doesn’t seem more
unreasonable then so many others. In fact, it seems relatively reasonable.
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