{"id":5559,"date":"2011-03-04T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2021-03-21T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T07:40:23","slug":"04-07-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/04-07-0\/","title":{"rendered":"01.\u00a0Even a Drop of <strong>\u1e24ametz<\/strong> Renders Food Forbidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, when a forbidden food becomes mixed with a permitted food, it is <strong>batel be-shishim<\/strong> (rendered insignificant if the forbidden food constitutes less than one sixtieth of the mixture); in such small quantities, it does not contribute flavor. At the level of Torah law, <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is also <strong>batel be-shishim<\/strong>. The Sages, however, ordained that even a drop of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> render a permitted food forbidden when mixed with it. Even if the quantity of permitted food is a thousand or ten thousand times greater than the <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong>, the entire mixture becomes forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>The Sages added this stringency because the Torah itself is more stringent about <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> than other forbidden foods: 1) Generally, if one consumes a Torah-forbidden food, the punishment is <strong>malkot <\/strong>(lashes), but one who eats <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> incurs the more severe punishment of <strong>karet <\/strong>(extirpation). 2) Whereas all other forbidden foods may be kept in one\u2019s home, <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> can neither be seen nor be found in our homes throughout Pesa\u1e25. The Sages therefore continued in this direction by establishing a safeguard: even if a drop of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> falls into a food, it is forbidden to consume or derive benefit from it. 3) All other forbidden foods are prohibited throughout the year, and we are therefore accustomed to distancing ourselves from them, but since we eat <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> all year long, we are liable to forget that it is forbidden on Pesa\u1e25. The Sages, therefore, are more stringent about <strong>\u1e25ametz,<\/strong> so that everybody remembers to be careful about it.<\/p>\n<p>This law, that even a drop of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> renders a mixture forbidden, goes into effect with the onset of Pesa\u1e25. Before Pesa\u1e25, <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is <strong>batel be-shishim<\/strong> like all other forbidden foods. Although the prohibition against eating <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> and the mitzva to dispose of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> go into effect at midday on the 14th of Nisan, the law that <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is not <strong>batel be-shishim<\/strong> does not take effect until Pesa\u1e25 begins, when one who consumes <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> incurs <strong>karet<\/strong> and when the prohibition of <strong>bal yera\u2019eh <\/strong>and<strong> bal yimatzei<\/strong> take effect (SA 447:2).<sup><a href='#_te01ftn7_1' id='_te01ftnref7_1' class='aup1'>[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div>\n<a href='#_te01ftnref7_1' id='_te01ftn7_1'>[1]<\/a>. According to <strong>She\u2019iltot, <\/strong>Rabbeinu Tam<strong>, <\/strong>and <strong>Ha-ma\u2019or<\/strong>, <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> has the same status as other forbidden foods and is <strong>batel be-shishim<\/strong>. All other <strong>poskim<\/strong> (including Rif, Rosh, and Rambam) maintain that <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is not <strong>batel <\/strong>even in a thousand-to-one ratio, as per the opinion of Rava, following Rav, in <strong>Pesa\u1e25im<\/strong> 30a. Even Rabbeinu Tam and <strong>Ha-ma\u2019or<\/strong> refrained from acting leniently (see <strong>Berur Halakha ad loc.<\/strong>). However, MB 447:2 states, citing A\u1e25aronim, that where there are other grounds for leniency, one may combine the view of <strong>She&#8217;iltot<\/strong> and Rabbeinu Tam to support a lenient ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for strictness about <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> are mentioned by Rashi, Rosh, <strong>Smak<\/strong>, Rabbeinu Yona, and many others. The first reasons are the principal ones, and therefore <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> becomes forbidden in a tiny quantity only once Pesa\u1e25 begins. However, Rambam and Ramban explain that the reason a tiny amount of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is forbidden is that after Pesa\u1e25 it will again become permitted, since on the Torah level <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> <strong>she-avar alav ha-Pesa\u1e25<\/strong> is permissible, and anything that will become permissible in the future (<strong>davar she-yesh lo matirin<\/strong>) is not <strong>batel<\/strong> in any mixture. According to this opinion, the tiniest amount of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> is forbidden from midday of the 14th. (This is the case only if it is mixed with the same sort of food item [<strong>min be-mino<\/strong>]. But the tiniest quantity of <strong>\u1e25ametz <\/strong>renders a mixture with dissimilar items [<strong>min be-she\u2019eino mino<\/strong>] forbidden only with the onset of the holiday, as explained in <strong>Magid Mishneh<\/strong> and <strong>Kesef Mishneh <\/strong>[MT, Laws of <strong>\u1e24ametz <\/strong>and Matza 1:5]. And according to Ran, there is a basis to forbid a mixture already from midday of the 14th, based on the rationale that we are not used to avoiding <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong>. Accordingly, there are grounds to forbid a mixture with even the tiniest amounts of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> starting from midday of the 14th, even <strong>min be-she\u2019eino mino<\/strong>.) Nevertheless, SA 447:2 rules that tiny amounts of <strong>\u1e25ametz<\/strong> render a mixture forbidden only once Pesa\u1e25 begins, and most A\u1e25aronim accept this view.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, when a forbidden food becomes mixed with a permitted food, it is batel be-shishim (rendered insignificant if the forbidden food constitutes less than one sixtieth of the mixture); in such small quantities, it does not contribute flavor. At the level of Torah law, \u1e25ametz is also batel be-shishim. 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