<br><br>On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org" target="_blank">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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I like the idea RETurkel repeated here some time ago that an oqimta is<br>
the gemara's way to construct a case where the stated law holds, and<br>
there are no counterveiling issues involved.<br>
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Which might allow us to distinguish between dinim that have outlandish<br>
cases suggested, and a din in which could only apply in the outlandish <br>
case.<br>
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Here, the constraint isn't that there may be an overriding issue, it's<br>
that it is hard to imagine a situation where blood would fall on the<br>
floor of the azarah and not spread.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>And it’s easy to imagine that the grass is poisonous or the man is a prisoner (example from bava Basra)? This ukimta doesn’t seem more unreasonable then so many others. In fact, it seems relatively reasonable. </div>