Responsa for Niddah 115:9
על עקבה ועל ראש גודלה טמאה וכו'
There is no question [that the woman is clean where she sat on] a cloak since it cannot be thoroughly examined and one may, therefore, well assume [that the stain] emanated from an external source,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the woman sat on it. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. A Gentile woman poured wine without touching it into a bottle or glass, thinking it was whiskey.
A. Since she did not touch the wine and did not know that it was wine, we assume that she did not discover its true nature by its odor. For our wines are clear and weak in comparison with the wines of the talmudic period. Therefore, the use of the wine, even the wine she poured into the bottle, is permitted.
SOURCES: B. p. 296 no. 390; Mordecai Hagadol p. 118b.
A. Since she did not touch the wine and did not know that it was wine, we assume that she did not discover its true nature by its odor. For our wines are clear and weak in comparison with the wines of the talmudic period. Therefore, the use of the wine, even the wine she poured into the bottle, is permitted.
SOURCES: B. p. 296 no. 390; Mordecai Hagadol p. 118b.
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