Thursday, February 18, 2010

Go with Dirty and Hairy

In Basar Bchalav (I can hear the groans already), if you wash in a Kli Rishon a fleishig pot together with a milchig one, problems arise. If one is dirty and the other clean, in many cases, the clean one will become assur, and the dirty one will actually be mutar!
This is similar to the advice for which barber you should visit. If there are only two barbers in a town, you go to the one with the messy, uneven and unkempt head of hair.

5 comments:

Anarchist Chossid said...

Does the clean pot make the dirty one mutar?

Yossi said...

it doesn't make it mutar, it just does not make it assur. because of irui from a kli rishon, the dirty pot is not receiving any ta'am from the clean one, so there's not mixture baluah of milk and meat in the dirty pot

Anarchist Chossid said...

So, in what way are they like two barbers then?

e said...

I'm glad my semicha days are behind me.

Yossi said...

the similarity is: you should pick the dirty one, or the one with the bad haircut.
yes, I realize that clean pot is not making the dirty one mutar, whereas the bad'hair barber is making the other barber have a good haircut.

I know they are not 100 percent alike. For instance, one is cooking ware, and one is a human being.