<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:34:00PM -0800, Liron Kopinsky wrote:<br>
</div>: 1) If someone accidentally spills a drop of milk into a big pot of<br>
<div class="im">: chicken soup, it is still for sure kosher because of bittul baRov. Are<br>
: you obligated to serve the soup because of Bal Tashchit?<br>
<br>On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div>R' Yaakov Moshe haKohein Lessin, the Slabodka alumnus who was mashgiach at<br>
YU (short bio <<a href="http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=28202" target="_blank">http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=28202</a>>), famously<br>
never finished a desert. As an excercise in self-discipline, there was<br>
always a bit of cake (or whatever) left on his plate.<br>
<br>
I repeated this story to someone, who asked my about bal tashchis in<br>
wasting that last forkful of cake. I suggested that perhaps RYML<br>
considered the excercise in perishus to be a proper use of the cake.<br>
<br>
A similar answer would work here.<br>
<br>
Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br></blockquote><div><br> I would argue that these two cases are not analogous. That minor piece of cake remaining is of no use to anyone other that R' Lessin. If so, it is his choice whether the best use of the cake is to eat it or to hold back from eating it. Similarly, if someone is served food and is full before their plate is finished, throwing out the leftovers would most likely not be wasting the food because no one else would eat it anyway.<br>
An entire pot of chicken soup however, could very well still be used and showing "restraint" and not using it might fall under אַל-תְּהִי צַדִּיק הַרְבֵּה - al tehi Tzaddik harbe.<br></div></div>