Responsa for Zevachim 192:4
אמר ליה בעי מיני מילתא דאיפשיט לך כי מתניתא בעא מיניה בישל במקצת כלי טעון מריקה ושטיפה או אין טעון א"ל אינו טעון מידי דהוה אהזאה
your answer. [But] when I ask a question of R Shesheth, he answers it from a teaching, so that even if I find a teaching which refutes him, it is one teaching against another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A controversy, and I may still adhere to the first.');"><sup>6</sup></span> Said he to him: Ask me a question, and I will answer you in accordance with a teaching.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I will base my answer on logic, yet you will find a mathnitha to corroborate it.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. A drop of milk fell upon the outside of a boiling pot of meat. The volume of the pot and its contents was more than sixty times that of the milk. Are the contents of the pot as well as the pot itself fit for use?
A. In France I witnessed a great controversy over this matter. But, at the time, I failed to inquire into the reasons of both those who permitted and those who forbade the use of the pot and its contents. I also discovered that Ri forbade the use of the pot and its contents, probably for the reason that the drop of milk first rendered the pot unfit for use, and the pot, in turn, rendered its contents unfit for use.
SOURCES: L. 121. Cf. Mord., Hulin, 679; P. 515; Hag. Maim., Maakalot Asurot 9, 3; Asher, Responsa 20, 26; Sefer Haparnes 19.
A. In France I witnessed a great controversy over this matter. But, at the time, I failed to inquire into the reasons of both those who permitted and those who forbade the use of the pot and its contents. I also discovered that Ri forbade the use of the pot and its contents, probably for the reason that the drop of milk first rendered the pot unfit for use, and the pot, in turn, rendered its contents unfit for use.
SOURCES: L. 121. Cf. Mord., Hulin, 679; P. 515; Hag. Maim., Maakalot Asurot 9, 3; Asher, Responsa 20, 26; Sefer Haparnes 19.
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