Chullin 189
מנלך
Said Rabbi, Are we to prohibit all the meat stalls [today] because of that fool who acted improperly?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the meat sold in all the stalls, even those kept by gentiles, is supplied by Jewish butchers, the Jews have accustomed themselves to buying meat from gentile stalls without hesitation. The improper act of this man surely will not have the effect of altering the status quo so as to place a restriction upon all stalls kept by gentiles!');"><sup>1</sup></span>
א"ל
Rabbi here is consistent with his principle, for he said: Where the meat stalls [kept by gentiles are supplied with meat by] Israelite butchers, any meat found in the possession of the gentile<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., on his stall.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
א"ל
Some there are who give this version: Rabbi said: 'Are we to prohibit all the meat stalls because of that fool who wanted to annoy his fellow'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' We assume therefore that he lied to his fellow merely in order to annoy him, but that he did not actually sell the gentile trefah meat.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
אמר רבי
Surely it was taught: Rabbi says: Where the meat stalls [kept by gentiles are supplied with meat by] Israelite butchers, any meat found in the possession of the gentile is permitted! - Here it is different, for the forbidden meat is clearly established.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He had definitely sold trefah meat to this gentile, and he might have done so to others too, therefore all the meat on the stalls kept by the gentiles is forbidden.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
איכא דאמרי אמר רבי
Rabbi says: Where the meat stalls [kept by gentiles are supplied with meat by] Israelite butchers, any meat found in the possession of the gentile is permitted!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Here the meat was not kept in sight by the Jew the whole time, nevertheless it is permitted.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
מפני שוטה זה דאיכוון לצעוריה לחבריה אנו נאסור כל המקולין
- It is different where it is found in the possession of the gentile.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The gentile has had this meat in his care all the time, and since all the meat supplied to him is ritually slaughtered, for no Jew would supply him with trefah meat to sell in the market, it is permitted. Where, however, nobody was in charge of it, it is forbidden, for a raven might have carried it away and brought back trefah meat from elsewhere.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
טעמא דאיכוון לצעוריה לחבריה הא לאו הכי אסור
Come and hear: If there were nine meat shops, all of them selling ritually slaughtered meat and one shop selling carrion, and a man bought meat from one of them but he does not know from which of them he bought, it is forbidden because of the doubt;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because of the principle that everything prohibited which has a fixed place (kabua') among things permitted, is not deemed as a minority among the majority, but rather as in the proportion of half to half. In this case therefore the meat, bought from one of the shops amongst which that shop which sells carrion has its place fixed and determined, is forbidden, for the doubt with regard to this meat is even.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
בשר כיון שנתעלם מן העין אסור
[raw] meat in the city one must determine [the meat] according to the majority of butchers; if it was cooked meat one must determine it according to the majority of the people that eat meat.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Maksh. II, 9. If the majority of butchers, or in the case of cooked meat if the majority of people that eat meat, are Jews, the meat found may be eaten.');"><sup>12</sup></span>
מקולין וטבחי ישראל בשר הנמצא ביד עובד כוכבים מותר
Let us see whether the gentile has it in his possession or the Israelite!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And this would easily determine the doubt, for if the gentile has it then it is forbidden for presumably he has cooked it. The case must therefore be that the meat was found on the ground and not in the possession of anyone, nevertheless it is permitted, contra Rab.');"><sup>13</sup></span>
תשע חנויות כולן מוכרות בשר שחוטה ואחת מוכרת בשר נבלה ולקח מאחת מהן ואינו יודע מאיזה מהן לקח ספקו אסור
if it was an entire limb it is deemed to be nebelah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For whenever an animal becomes nebelah it is usually cut up into limbs and thrown away.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
ובנמצא הלך אחר הרוב
but if it was a cut [from a limb] it is permitted.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shek. VII, 6. It is to be assumed, of course, that the majority of butchers in the town are Jews. Nevertheless it is permitted even though it was lost and presumably out of sight.');"><sup>17</sup></span>
הכא נמי
And should you say that here too we must suppose that he [the finder] stood by keeping his eye on it all the time, then why is it deemed to be nebelah in the case of an entire limb?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After all the meat had only accidentally fallen from the owner and was not thrown away as nebelah.');"><sup>18</sup></span>
תא שמע
But with regard to it there has been reported: Rab said: It is permitted only in so far as it is not deemed to be nebelah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it does not defile, but on no account may it be eaten since it had not been kept in sight the whole time.');"><sup>19</sup></span>