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<font size=3>At 06:21 AM 3/8/2010, Eli Turkel wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">BTW I haven'y seen anyone deal
with the issue of how could gedolim from previous<br>
generations eat treif fish is we have the rule that G-d watches over the
donkey<br>
of R. Pinchas ben Yair and so certainly over the
tzaddikim.</font></blockquote><br><br>
Rabbi Yisroel Belsky feels has pointed out the same thing. He refuses to
believe that the gedolim from previous generations ate treif fish.
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I sent the following out on 1/26/10. <br><br>
<font size=3>Given this [the claims by some that there are now bugs in
our fish], I contacted the OU to get some information about this
issue. I have learned the following:<br><br>
Rav Yisroel Belsky has issued a psak for the OU, stating that there is no
need to check for worms and no prohibition of the worms found in wild
salmon and other fish, in accordance with Shulchan Aruch Y"D
84:16. According to this psak, he states that the Shulchan Aruch does not
limit the permissibility of Tolayim found in the flesh of fish to any
species of tolaas. The halacha states that the tolaas found in the flesh
of the fish is mutar, and there is no reason to believe present day
Tolayim are any different from those found in the past. <br><br>
There is an audio presentation made by Rav Belsky last year at
<a href="http://www.ouradio.org/index.php/ouradio/comment/9742/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ouradio.org/index.php/ouradio/comment/9742/</a> In it he notes
that the SA did not require one to be an expert in the Tolayim found in
the fish flesh to know how they got into the flesh, either from the
viscera [The internal organs of the body, specifically those within the
chest (as the
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3668">
heart</a> or
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4209">
lungs</a>) or
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2081">
abdomen</a> (as the
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4179">
liver</a>,
<a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4743">
pancreas</a> or intestines).] or from some other source. If the tolaas
clearly came from the viscera after death, the tolaas would indeed
be forbidden.<br><br>
He also said that the concern that the Tolayim found in the flesh of fish
may have migrated from the viscera after the death of the fish and would
be forbidden is not based on any scientific research. Based on his own
inquiries of experts in the field, Rav Belsky feels that, in fact,
the opposite is true, and that the Tolayim in question are to be found in
the flesh of the fish while it was alive. Furthermore, Rav Belsky
said that the size of the tolaas when it is swallowed by the fish
is not relevant.<br><br>
Yitzchok Levine <br><br>
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