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<DIV>RAM writes: "Even the very best of hechsherim is not perfect; if someone
totally innocently ate such food, and it turned out to be treif, would you say
that it is not m'tamtem his lev even a tiny bit? What about someone whose
tefillin had been checked over the years by a dozen expert sofrim, and only
decades later was it discovered that an entire word was missing; Hashem can give
him all sorts of credits for trying, but do you think that he'll really get full
credit as if the word had been there all along?"</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know what RDC, to whom the questions were directed, would answer,
but I would answer "yes" to both questions. Of course, what do I know
about this. But I think RAM's comment about "being above my pay scale"
applies to almost everyone with respect to these matters.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>