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If you would have made peace with me yesterday, wouldn’t I have given you a cut from the fattened bull that I prepared yesterday? The other individual said to him: Nevertheless I ate from the finest of the fine of that bull that you prepared. The butcher said to him: From where did you get a piece
R' Yehuda HaNasi said when he heard of this incident: Because of this imbecile who acted improperly and sold non-kosher meat to the non-Jew butcher without publicizing that he did so, should we forbid all of the meat from non-Jew butcher shops in the city?
The Talmud notes that R' Yehuda HaNasi conforms to his standard line of reasoning, as R' Yehuda HaNasi said: If there are butcher shops in a city and Jewish butchers prepare the meat, any meat found in the possession of a non-Jew, i.e., in a non-Jew’s butcher shop, is permitted. There is no conce
The Talmud presents an alternate version of R' Yehuda HaNasi’s reaction to the incident cited above: There are those who say that R' Yehuda HaNasi said: Because of this imbecile, who intended only to cause distress to his fellow, should we forbid all of the meat from non-Jew butcher shops? That bu
The Talmud notes that the reason R' Yehuda HaNasi considers the meat to be kosher is that the butcher intended only to cause distress to his fellow. This indicates that if that were not so, all the meat in the non-Jew butcher shops would be forbidden. But isn’t it taught in a baraita that R' Yehud