[Avodah] avoiding the issue

[Zev Sero]

On 24/6/20 12:22 am, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
> The mishna brura is full of examples where the author suggests avoiding 
> the issue rather than providing an answer by picking one authority's 
> approach over another. It's an approach - not sure why it found so much 
> favor ( as in a ben tora doesn't eat granola bars because of the 
> difficulty in determining the appropriate blessings). Thoughts?

Doesn't the gemara, all over the place, explicitly endorse such an 
approach?  Not getting into a safek.  Not eating something about which a 
shayla had been asked, even if the answer was "kosher".   At any rate it 
*far* predates the MB.


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