פירוש על עבודה זרה 58:14
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
The Talmud finds the mishnah’s prohibition of gentile wine to be obvious—just because the wine goes bad does not mean that it becomes permitted.
Rav Ashi answers that there is one point of leniency with regard to vinegar. Most of the time, if a non-Jew handles Jewish wine, it must be doubly sealed. This is a halakhah we will deal with at greater length later in the tractate. But Jewish vinegar being held by a non-Jew does not need to be doubly sealed. First of all, non-Jews don’t generally libate vinegar (although they might, for the line between wine and vinegar is not so hard). Second, he won’t trouble himself to exchange this wine for his own because it does have at least one seal, making it harder to open.
Rav Ashi answers that there is one point of leniency with regard to vinegar. Most of the time, if a non-Jew handles Jewish wine, it must be doubly sealed. This is a halakhah we will deal with at greater length later in the tractate. But Jewish vinegar being held by a non-Jew does not need to be doubly sealed. First of all, non-Jews don’t generally libate vinegar (although they might, for the line between wine and vinegar is not so hard). Second, he won’t trouble himself to exchange this wine for his own because it does have at least one seal, making it harder to open.
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