Pesahim 20 - A Wine's Bouquet Is More Valuable than Its Taste
Rabbi Richard Hidary
Pesahim 20 Needle case: How was meat prepared with dampening? Esteem of holiness Cow swam beforehand Why does excrement not conduct impurity? Vessel laws Impurity food chain Air space of vessels Contradiction 1 – Passover-Passover Rabbi Yeshoshua in Mishnah – burn doubt and impure together In Tosefta – can only burn two level of Tumah Mishna is R. Shimon’s version, Tosefta is R. Yose’s version Contradiction 2 – Passover-Terumah R. Yehoshua – burn doubt and impure together R. Yehoshua – cannot directly metameh doubtful Terumah First is R. Shimon, second is R. Yose Contradiction 3 – Terumah-Terumah R. Yehoshua – cannot directly metameh doubtful Terumah R. Yehoshua – winepress case can metameh directly Winepress case has great loss But not minimal loss as in oil case Because oil can be used for light (Hanukah!) But wine can also be for fragrance New wine in a repulsive vessel Won’t come to drink it Beth Hillel – Beth Shammai But not if its 1/100