Questions tagged [bitul-batel-null]
halachik nullification of a particular item
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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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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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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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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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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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