Parshas Vayeitzai 5786
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זבחים דף עד. "ספק ספיקא ברוב- רימוני באדן"
When איסור gets mixed withהיתר , if they are solids it is בטל ברוב (1 piece falls into 2). If it is liquid, there must be 60 times more היתר than איסור to nullify the tase of איסור and consider it בטל. Earlier {עב:] the Gemara quotes a Mishnah [ערלה פ"ג,ז'] that בטל ברוב only applies to ordinary substances that are not necessarily significant. If they are considered חשוב, these items are never בטל. The חכמים list 6 foods that are considered חשוב and an exception, and are not בטל ברוב. Rashi [ד"ה ששה] explains: these foods are large, expensive & the most חשוב of their species and are not בטל ברוב. One of the items on the list are רימוני באדן. Pomegranates that come from a place called באדן. ר' יהודה says: If one of these רימוני באדן that isאסור (either ערלה or תרומה), falls into a pile of 10,000 רימונים and 1 רימון from this pile of 10k falls into another pile of 10k רימונים, the entire second group of 10k is אסור. Even though when I take 1 רימון out of the 2nd pile it is a ספק ספיקא- because maybe the one that fell out of the first pile wasn’t the אסור one. And even if it was, when I take one out of the second pile, maybe that is not the one that originally fell into the first pile? So, he doesn’t hold of applying ספק ספיקא. ר' שמעון holds: If one אסור רימון falls into a pile of 10k רימונים, they are all אסור. If one from this pile falls into a a group of 2 רימונים (now totaling 3) and 1 from this group of 3 falls in to a 3rd pile, the 3rd pile is מותר. Rashi explains: ר' שמעון holds of ספק ספיקא & even the second pile of 3 are מותר. Because when 1 fell out of the 1st pile of 10k into the 2nd pile, it might not have been the איסור and even if it was, the 1 coming out of the pile of 3, may not be that one. So it is a double ספק &מותר. [ד"ה פירש] תוס' points out: If the whole point of ר' שמעון is that he holds of the ספק ספיקא, then why does he need the case of a 3rd pile? In the second pile it is already a ספק ספיקא?תוס' explains that we are trying to show that there is a חילוק in halacha between the 2nd pile & 3rd. The 3rd pile may all be eaten at once, while the 3 רימונים in the 2nd pile may not be eaten all at once. This is because in the second pile, the רימון we take out is a ספק ספיקא maybe the one that fell out of the first pile wasn’t the איסור and even if it was, the one I’m eating now might not be that one. But if I eat the whole pile of 3 at once, I will certainly be eating a רימון that fell from the first pile! That would make that רימון only 1 ספק and אסור to eat. משא"כ one may eat the entire 3rd pile at once. This is because there is not even 1 רימון in this pile that is not a double ספק. Because maybe the רימון that fell into the 2nd pile isn’t the איסור and even if the איסור did fall into the 2nd pile, the one that fell out of it into the 3rd might not be that one. So that one is a double ספק and may be eaten and the other 2 in the pile certainly have no ספק, so the entire pile may be eaten all at once. [בדי השולחן ס' ק"י ס"ק נט] ר' ש.פ. כהן asks: If ר' שמעון is using ספק ספיקא as the היתר and not ביטול, why does the 2nd pile need to be a total of 3? Even if it’s just a total of 2 there is a ספק ספיקא on each piece he takes out? ע"ש. The [חולין פ"ז, אות לז'] רא"ש explains that in a (standard) case of ביטול (חד בתרי), one may eat all 3 pieces at once because the גזה"כ tells us that "נהפך האיסור להיות היתר" and the entire pile is now היתר. The רשב"א holds that only 1 piece at a time may be eaten, but not all 3 together. [ב"י קט' א']