Wednesday, 13 October 2010

D'Regel Lo Shmeih Nissuch

TB: Avodah zara 56b
The Daf for Shabbat B'reisheet [see Schottenstein edition fn 15]

Wine [treaded] by feet is not considered a libation

There are two essential approaches here

LITERAL :
Any Libation made by means of Feet instead of Hands is NEVER constituted as a Libation - provided a generalization and a broad implementation of this rule - because feet are unworthy of making a libation.

CONTEXTUAL:
A Strict or limited application would be applied to treading because The Talmud here is discussing feet in the context of the treading process. In that strict case it is not subject to libation. However, outside treading, feet indeed ARE capable of "libating" wine.

Shalom
RRW

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