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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It is
noted by the Acharonim that when the Gemara discusses questions to do with
transfer of non-Kosher flavour, there is no suggestion that a connoisseur be employed
to provide an expert opinion and determine the Halachic rule. For example, in
the Gemara’s debate if soaking is like cooking or if salting is like
cooking, it is not suggested that we run a series of tests to determine if it
is or is not so.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Why not?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And perhaps
we can ask (because I don’t think this question is asked by the Rishonim
or Acharonim) how did each side of the debate come to their conclusion. It’s
the old (general) question, how can we have a debate in the Gemara about
matters of verifiable fact?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It is
therefore proposed that it is not absolutely known if the flavour has or has
not been transferred. Sometimes it does and sometimes it does not. We can
verify this from the Halacha that a single Kezayis lowered consecutively into even
1000000 separate boiling pots each of 59 Kezaysim of Kosher foods will render
all the pots non-Kosher. But how many Kezaysim of non-Kosher flavour are in the
one Kezayis? They could not possibly all be non-Kosher.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So it
must be that we actually don’t know where the flavour has been
transferred. In the above mentioned 1000000 pots would it not be appropriate to
say that even if there is in fact one pot which is not-Kosher (because we may
have had only a fraction of the Kezayis exuded into several pots – in which
case all the pots are K) it is anyway Battel in the majority of the other pots
that must be Kosher?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Furthermore,
does this not make all theses situations into cases of Safek – doubt which
must be treated differently than cases of Vaday – certainty?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:494.25pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Just
imagine we have one Kezayis in our hand which is chopped into several pieces. Before
us are 10 pots. With our eyes closed or the lights off the Kezayis handful is (inadvertently)
thrown towards the nest of 10 pots. We verify that all the pieces fell into the
pot/s, i.e. none are found on the floor. Are all the pots Kosher, none?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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