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<font size=3>At 07:18 PM 8/12/2009, Zev Sero wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">> Years ago someone told me
that there is a teshuva of the Chasam Sofer<br>
> that says that such supervision is not valid, but I do not know
which<br>
> teshuva this is.<br><br>
If so, it would have been a chumrah or takanah specific to the<br>
circumstances of his place and time. The CS surely did not
have<br>
the authority to change the basic halacha in the SA and Rama,<br>
for all times and places!</blockquote><br>
Here is what I was told. <br><br>
There was once a reliable shochet who decided to open a butcher shop. He
argued the following: Since he was considered reliable when it came to
his shechita, he therefore should not be required to have supervision on
his butcher shop. <br><br>
This case was brought to the Chasam Sofer who paskened that this fellow
did indeed need supervision on his butcher shop. The reasoning was that
when it came to shechita, the shochet received the same amount of
compensation, no matter if an animal were found to be kosher or not.
However, when it came to his butcher shop, there definitely were
financial considerations. In short, in his butcher shop he was nogeah
b'davar, and hence needed supervision.<br><br>
I repeat that I have not seen the actual teshuva.<br><br>
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