Nullification: Difference between revisions
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==What is Included in the Measurement== | ==What is Included in the Measurement== | ||
===How the permitted items are measured=== | |||
#When measuring the food in a pot to see if it nullified the forbidden ingredients we consider the gravy, scraps of meat, and large pieces of meat.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 99:4</ref> Many poskim hold that dry bones, whether from a permitted or forbidden source, are also counted for nullification. However, the marrow of the bones from a forbidden source is also forbidden. Some poskim argue that bones from a forbidden source can't be counted towards nullification.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 99:1 rules like the Rashba (Torat HaBayit 6a) that even the forbidden bones count towards nullification, but the Rama cites the Or Zaruah who holds that the forbidden bones can't be considered towards nullification and adds that in cases of loss one can rely on the Rashba. Kaf HaChaim 99:11 writes that Sephardim primarily follow Shulchan Aruch here. The Shach 99:1 and Kaf HaChaim 99:2 are strict regarding moist bones from a forbidden source to include them in the measurement of the forbidden ingredients. </ref> | #When measuring the food in a pot to see if it nullified the forbidden ingredients we consider the gravy, scraps of meat, and large pieces of meat.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 99:4</ref> Many poskim hold that dry bones, whether from a permitted or forbidden source, are also counted for nullification. However, the marrow of the bones from a forbidden source is also forbidden. Some poskim argue that bones from a forbidden source can't be counted towards nullification.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 99:1 rules like the Rashba (Torat HaBayit 6a) that even the forbidden bones count towards nullification, but the Rama cites the Or Zaruah who holds that the forbidden bones can't be considered towards nullification and adds that in cases of loss one can rely on the Rashba. Kaf HaChaim 99:11 writes that Sephardim primarily follow Shulchan Aruch here. The Shach 99:1 and Kaf HaChaim 99:2 are strict regarding moist bones from a forbidden source to include them in the measurement of the forbidden ingredients. </ref> | ||
#The width of the pot doesn't count towards nullification. <ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch YD 99:1</ref> | #The width of the pot doesn't count towards nullification. <ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch YD 99:1</ref> | ||
#We measure the mixture according to the size of the items when they come before the rabbi.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 99:4</ref> | #We measure the mixture according to the size of the items when they come before the rabbi.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 99:4</ref> | ||
===How the forbidden item is measured=== | |||
# Once a solid food becomes forbidden by a transfer of taste it can never revert to becoming permitted again. That is, even if it is later cooked with sixty times its measure and is nullified, that piece remains forbidden.<ref>The Rashba holds that once a piece of food becomes forbidden it can never revert to become permitted. Tur 106:1 disagrees. Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 106:1 accepts the Rashba. However, in Y.D. 92:4 the Shulchan Aruch uses the language of the Tur. Taz 92:10 and Gra 92:16 point out this contradiction but side with the Rashba. Shach 92:11 reads the Shulchan Aruch 92:4 in light of 106:1. Therefore, the conclusion of the poskim is like the Rashba (Horah Brurah 92:32).</ref> | |||
# Once a food becomes forbidden by a transfer of taste in order to nullify it when it is part of a mixture, according to Ashkenazim, one needs to measure sixty times the entire volume of that food. This concept is known as '''Chaticha Naaseh Nevelah''' or '''Chanan'''.<ref>Rama 92:4. Horah Brurah 92:33 points out that many poskim hold that this applies even to a rabbinic prohibition.</ref> Sephardim only hold of this concept by meat and milk but for other prohibitions one only ever needs to nullify the volume of the original prohibition.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 92:4</ref> | |||
==Unsure if there is Sixty== | ==Unsure if there is Sixty== | ||
