Questions tagged [bitul-batel-null]
halachik nullification of a particular item
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Nullifying Ancient Israelite Idols
Following up on a question raised on the Avodah list (see here & here under the subject “Destroying Idols”).
Archaeologists often dig up idols whose worshipers have abandoned them over the ...
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Can non-Jews utilize the princple of bittul berov?
The concept of bittul berov means that in certain cases, if some non-kosher food gets mixed up in as much kosher food of the same type such that nobody knows which piece is the non-kosher part, the ...
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The stolen maple syrup and kashrus
Does anyone know if there is going to be a kashrus problem with maple syrup next year?
A rather large amount of maple syrup was stolen last year. The thieves did not keep it in the original casks, ...
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tap water on Pesach
The New Croton Reservoir supplies much of New York City's tap water, and people are allowed to — and do — go out on boats and fish. I'd venture a guess that almost every Saturday and Sunday, a piece ...
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Why seem to sell and be mafkir chametz?
My understanding is that we do both of the following:
We (appoint a rabbi as an agent to) sell our chametz to a gentile. This sale takes place the morning of the day before Pesach, before the ...
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Is there a concept of "bitul beshishim" with regards to fish?
Years ago, some brands of Worcestershire sauce as well as a few salad dressings were marked "OU fish". This meant that one was not allowed to use this sauce on a piece of meat or have it on the same ...
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Bitul BeRov - the classic case in real life
In Halachah there's a tremendously powerful concept of Bitul BeRov (nullification among the majority). It goes like this:
If you have three identical pieces of meat, and you know for a fact that one ...
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Batel b'shisim on a large scale
Suppose someone is making a huge 50-gallon vat of cholent. Accidentally, an entire bag of milk breaks and spills into the cholent. There is more than 60x as much meat cholent as there is milk, so the ...
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What's the Shiur of Mashehu?
Certain issurim (forbidden things) can become batel (halachically nullified) if they were unintentionally mixed in heter (permitted things). In order for this to happen, the heter must outnumber the ...
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Does דבר שיש לו מתירין apply to כל דפריש?
Often, there's a rule that a forbidden substance (or object) that got mixed with sufficiently much (or many) permitted substance (or objects) is בטל ("nullified" is the usual translation, though I don'...
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If chametz is batel before Pesach
If chametz can be batel before Pesach, why don't we buy (before Pesach) any commercially produced product with year-round (i.e., not Pesach-specific) kosher certification which does not list chametz ...
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Bittul (nullification) and Mechira (sale)
Sorry if this is a duplicate. It is my understanding that one must sell his chometz, prior to declaring his chometz nullified. Reason being, how can one sell something that is null and void? It is ...
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Food that became prohibited because of a fly, then was separated into 3 new parts, nullified?
There was a pot of soup that a fly fell into it. The fly was not located and therefore the whole soup became prohibited. Even though the soup might have 60 parts against the fly, still since the fly ...
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What makes something "worthy of being honored"?
When a piece of meat is in a mixture that should nullify it, we don't consider it nullified if it is ראוי להתכבד, or "worthy of being honored", something you would serve to a guest. Is there some kind ...
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Does nullification mean something no longer exists, or just that it has no Halachic significance?
[For the record, (I believe) I know the answer, but I saw someone post the question, as stated in the subject, on social media, and I am drawing it to its logical conclusion here.]
Say, for example, ...
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Does Tuma get nullified?
If a drop of Tuma liquid (say a "Mashke" of a zav) falls into a huge vat of water, do we say that all the water is now an Av, or do we say it could get nullified.
If it gets nullified, at what ratio?
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A Fleishig-Milchig Mixture that's Pareve
I had heard that a dish that's 59 parts pareve to 1 part milchig to 1 part fleishig is pareve, as the fleishig portion is batel by a 1:60 ratio, as is the milchig portion.
My question is twofold. ...
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Can one nullify permitted stuff?
I know there's a concept of en m'vat'lin isur l'chat'chila: one may not deliberately mix forbidden stuff with permitted stuff (or milk with meat, or meat with milk) in such small quantities that the ...
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Unsupervised milk - there was a treife animal in the herd
I heard in a recent shiur that Dayan Weiss zatzal ruled that an animal that delivered its young via caesarean section is considered a treife. Therefore its milk cannot be drunk. When supervising ...
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Informing someone that the food they are eating is permissible only b'deved(after the fact)
Does one need to inform someone that the food they are about to eat is permissible b'deved(after the fact)?
Example 1: Some milk fell into the chulent and the Rabbi employed batel b'shishim and now ...
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How can we just make our chametz ownerless?
I'm trying to understand the "legal fiction" wherein we declare any chometz we have as ownerless like the dust of the earth. Is this halachically acceptable? How can a person declare something in his ...
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Why Are Bugs Not Batul Bshishim?
Particularly in the case of tiny bugs on plants, fruits, and vegetables. Why are they not considered batul bshishim since they are obviously not there on purpose (or desirable) and they make up a tiny ...
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Ratios of Hameitz-to-Other for Owning
For the prohibition of owning hameitz on passover, what is the ratio of hameitz-to-other that makes a mixture hameitz? The prohibition of owning hameitz is a separate mitzvat lo-ta'asei, as listed by ...
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How is batel beshishim verified practically?
I understand the general rule that if there is a mixture of meat and milk and the meat is < 1/60 of the milk it is a dairy product, or if the milk is < 1/60 of the meat it is a meat product.
If ...
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Why ‘that which I burnt and that which I haven’t yet burnt’?
After burning the Chametz we say
כָּל חֲמִירָא וַחֲמִיעָא דְּאִכָּא בִרְשׁוּתִי דַּחֲזִתֵּהּ וּדְלָא חֲזִתֵּהּ דַּחֲמִתֵּהּ וּדְלָא חֲמִתֵּהּ דְּבִעַרְתֵּהּ וּדְלָא בִעַרְתֵּהּ לִבָּטֵל וְלֶהֱוֵי ...
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What's the law of Bittul and powdered milk?
Suppose someone took a tea-spoon of powdered milk, reconstituted it into normal milk, and accidentally dropped some of it on meat. Do we measure the bittul of the resulting mixture against the powder ...
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Chometz less than the size of a Kezayis
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I've heard when cleaning for Pesach that chometz that is less than the size of a kezayis isn't significant enough to be considered chometz. I am talking only concerning chometz which one isn't ...
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One-in-Sixty Versus Roiv- Why both?
There are two concepts in the Halacha of Bittul (nullification). One says that if there is an item that is Unkosher that falls into another item that is Kosher, and it is a mixture, and the Unkosher ...
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Waiting between meat and a product with negligible dairy
After eating meat, there's a strong custom to wait a while before eating dairy, but does this apply if the dairy (or meat) food contained an amount of dairy/meat that, if it fell into the first food ...
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May a Jew drink a fruit drink that has less than 1/60 of grape juice?
There are a number of manufactured fruit drinks that have trace amounts of grape juice that are less than 1/60 of the volume of ingredients. (A way to tell is when the product label states the ...
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Stam wine bitul in 1/6?
What's the source (either from the gemara or rishonim) for allowing stam wine to be batel in 1/6 mixture?
Does this apply if you can still taste the wine?
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Ratios of Hameitz-to-Other for Deriving Benefit
For the prohibition on deriving benefit from hameitz on passover, what is the ratio of hameitz-to-other that makes a mixture hameitz? I am aware that when it comes to the prohibition of eating hameitz ...
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Nullification of non-kosher utensils or dishes
If an unidentifiable non kosher utensil or vessel gets mixed up with kosher vessels, if the majority of vessels are kosher, it is nullified. [1] If someone makes this mistake a million times, are all ...
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A drop of milk gets into the chicken soup, can one still eat the soup? [closed]
I think it has something to do with the 1/60 rule but I don't know what that is.
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The levels in kashrut
If a piece of a biblically forbidden food (such as a piece of pork), falls into a bowl of meat. We all know the rule, it's batul bshishim. How about a piece of food which is only rabbinically ...
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תרומה becoming בטל in חולין. How does it work exactly?
תרומות פרק ד משנה ד
The Halacha is that if one סאה of תרומה falls in a vat of 100 סאה (acc. to one שיטה) it becomes בטל and one may take off תרומה from anywhere within the vat, as the original תרומה ...
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Putting Oreos in your Cholent
According to the certifying agency of Nabisco Oreo cookies, which are marked OU-D:
The equipment is not necessarily cleaned before the production of these cookies, and there may be a small amount ...
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Dried insects - permissible?
I just read the website of a Kashrut inspection agency with which I'm familiar, but only insofar as I have seen it many times and tried, but failed, to find any information about the agency's ...
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Why can Avodah Zara be בטל בשישים?
If עבודה זרה is so strict, why can it be בטל by 1/60 in דבר שלא במינו? (see :עבודה זרה ע"ג)
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Nullifying a chametz-based medication before Pesach
Let's say you are a choleh who is permitted or required to take a chometz-containing medication during Pesach (according to the halachos described here: http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-passover-...
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Can you buy juice before Pesach without a Pesach certification? [duplicate]
The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, 117:1, says that before Pesach, Chametz is batel b'shishim. So for example, a bottle of 100% apple juice, even if it hasn't been certified that you can know 100% sure that ...
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Bittul of Hameitz in Mixtures Aquired Before Passover
Looking for clarification on the kind of bittul of hameitz that occurs for foods acquired before, but not during, Passover:
What is the maximum ratio of hameitz to other food that the bittul happens ...
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Is chelev nullified in 1/60?
Vayikra 7:25 says that anyone who eats chelev (suet) gets karet.
Is there a concept of batel beshishim (nullification in 1/60) for chelev? Is one liable for karet if he ate a food mixture containing &...
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Are preservatives called a "davar ha'mamid"
At the end of YD Siman 87 we find the dinim of "mamid". Over there it's speaking about cheese made in the skin of the kevah of a nevilah of treifah. The Rema explains that because it is an issur for ...
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Kosher leniencies in a place with neither hechshers nor kosher lists
I'm trying to understand whether or not there are leniencies regarding kosher certification in countries where it's uncommon. I am aware that in many parts of the world there are almost zero products ...
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Is blood "batel beshishim"? [duplicate]
I ask this question because I notice what seems to be a practical "contradiction".
Inevitably, even after salting meat, there seems to be some blood in it. Yet, I notice some people that eat raw meat ...
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Do concepts of nat bar nat and batel beshishim apply to ovens?
In a prior post I asked about batel beshishim and nat bar nat (noten ta'am bar noten ta'am) as it applies to pots and utensils. Do these concepts apply to ovens? If yes why? If not, why?
If ...
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Is non-kosher-dyed food kosher?
Supoose some non-slaughtered-animal or non-kosher-species ingredient gets mixed accidentally into a larger food. From what I understand, if the non-kosher ingredient is not thought to add flavor to ...
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Is Bitul Chameitz effective on unknown chameitz?
When one is mevateil chameitz, does he have to have in mind the chameitz he intends to be mevatel? If not, how could there be anything found on Pesach that he would have to burn?
According to this ...
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Ashkenazic Rabbanim who hold Kitniyot are batel berov lechatchilah before pesach
Are there any Ashkenazic poskim who hold, like R.Yitzchak Abadi, that kitniyot are batel berov lechatchilah before pesach, thus allowing Ashkenazim to drink regular coke with corn syrup, for example, ...
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