If a piece of
meat inadvertently falls into a pot of hot milk (that was above 45 degrees
centigrade), we need to ascertain whether or not there is 60 times more milk
against the meat.
If there is
SHISHIM (60 times more milk against the meat), the milk is absolutely
permissible.
(The piece of
meat, however, would have to be disposed of, as it becomes a prohibited mixture
of BASAR BeCHALAV)[1].
If there is
not SHISHIM (60) in the milk, then both the piece of meat and all the milk are
prohibited.
The reason why
we require SHISHIM (60 times more milk against the meat), is simply because of the
following conundrum; We know that the heat in the milk will cause the piece of meat
to expel TAAM (taste). But we are unsure just how much TAAM (taste) will
be expelled. So we err on the side of caution and assume that TAAM (taste)
gets expelled from the ENTIRE piece of meat.
Hence the mathematical
calculation becomes a simple one; measure the volume of the entire piece of meat
- measure the volume of all the milk, and see whether there is 60 times more volume
of milk against the volume of meat.
[Daf 35, Siman
2, Perek 1, Seif 1,2]
[1] In
the original Hebrew text it states; ‘VeZORKAH’ (that the meat has to be ‘THROWN
AWAY’. I can only surmise that it means BURRIED, and not just thrown away. See
post 5) WHAT TO DO WITH A COOKED ENTITY OF MEAT AND MILK.
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