Monday 19 February 2018

Avodah Zara 35: Cheese, Milk, Bread and Perfumed Sages

Some basic items from today's daf:

  • we may not eat cheese made by Gentiles
    • the process may involve a non-kosher mixing of milk and the stomach of a calf
    • it may sit out and be made non-kosher by the venom of a snake, etc.
    • lard from pigs may be used to smooth the cheese
    • vinegar or sap from fruit may be used to curdle the cheese

  • Rav Nachkann brei d'rav Chisda says that a Sage is compared with a flask of perfume
    • if open (teaching others), it gives off a nice scent; if closed, it does not
    • if open, hidden things are revealed to him
    • the angel of death loves him
    • he inherits this world and the World-to-Come
A new Mishna:
  • We are forbidden to eat but benefit from 
    • milk that a Gentile milked without being overseen by a Jew 
    • a Gentile's bread 
    • possibly a Gentile's oil
    • cooked foods
    • pickled foods using wine or vinegar
    • diced fish, 
    • brine if kalbis, a fish, swims in it
    • chilek, a fish late to grow fins and scales
    • a koret, cut piece, seek or stalk of chiltis, a spice
    • shalkundis salt
Gemara:
  • the milk could be switched with the milk of a tamei animal
  • the milk could be mixed with the milk of a tamei animal
  • milk could be tested by seeing whether or not it curdles (kosher milk curdles)
  • the milk could be tainted by the remaining whey of tamei milk in the cracks after the kosher milk curdles
  • bread is forbidden because it could lead to socializing and then to intermarriage
  • bread may be permitted in the field where there is no risk of interaction

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