Washington Jewish Week, April 6th, 2006
Every so often, a complex question of Jewish law presented itself to Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), the famed Rabbi of Frankfurt, Germany. The neighborhood butcher had brought before him a particularly complicated case. A defect had been discovered in the lung of a slaughtered ox, raising the possibility that it might be considered treif (non-kosher) and therefore forbidden for his Jewish community to eat.
It was a complex borderline case, and Rabbi Horowitz pored over the previous rulings of great Halachic authorities of past generations. Several rabbis had ruled the meat forbidden in s...
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