<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:34:00PM -0800, Liron Kopinsky wrote:<br>
: 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>
</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>
<br></blockquote><div>Kiddushin 32a relates a ma'aseh in which Rav Huna tested his son's mida of ka'as by tearing a silk garment (that he would eventually inherit) in his presence. It notes that doing so would ordinarily be a violation of bal tashchis, were it not that the tear was actually done along a seam. This being the case, it seems that the use of an otherwise useful item as a mussar tool would still be considered bal tashchis.<br>
<br>- Josh<br></div></div>