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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">What about water and salt? Where did the
Torah permit those to be<BR>consumed?</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>I think the most straight forward approach would be a kal vechomer from
the permit to eat vegetation. Since man was granted permission to eat
vegetation, then certainly that would include any substances that are indeed
consumed by the vegetation in order for them to grow and thus become food for
man.</DIV>
<DIV>I should point out that this was not quite as obvious as I originally
imagined. Water is pretty clear but I had to google around a bit before I
found that plants do need chlorine (as in sodium chloride) in small quantity
to enable cellular metabolism. Just a cursory search turns up that salt can be
harmful to most plant life. Anybody familiar with the details of the
need (all be it small) for chlorine for cellular metabolism in plant
life?</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>R’nLL responded:<BR>That's irrelevant. No human being was aware of
any need for salt, and therefore could not have deduced by kal v'chomer that
salt is permissible. Salt is permissible for a very simple reason.
It was never forbidden.<BR><BR>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>Do you really have any idea of what Adam Harishon knew or did not
know?</DIV>
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<DIV>Kol tuv</DIV>
<DIV>Chaim Manaster</DIV>
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