0728 - When a Rav Paskens - Story With Question About Treifa - R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin

00:01 Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin was the robe of Crown Heights. He was the one that the Rebbe would ask the shailas. The Rebbe would send people to him. I myself, when I was in Russia, and people asked me a shaila to ask Rabbonim here, I asked the Rebbe, I wrote to the Rebbe the shaila, and the Rebbe said to ask Rabbi Zalman Shimon, etc., etc. He told me that there was a group of shochtim that were under his ashgacha, and they would travel to a certain city every week, and then at the end of the week, they would come back to New York for Shabbos. Once he got a call from the shochtim that were there in the place where they were shechting, that they shechted many behemoths, and they were kosher. They were in the part of the kashers of the glatt kosher. But then they realized that one part of the, one of the animals, maybe I think it was one of the reias, lungs, it was treif, actually. But it was at the point already when they couldn't tell to which animal it belonged, this part, this lung. So they didn't know which one of the 20 or 25 or whatever amount of animals they had already made kosher where it belonged to. So they didn't know which one of those animals, of those behemoths were treif. So they didn't know what to do. So they called him Zalman Shimon. So Shimon heard a question, looked into it, and he told them what

01:29 the halacha is, that in a case like this, we say bottle barov, since most of them are kosher, just one of them is not kosher, but you don't know which one it is. So let them take one of the behemoths, the kosher behemoths, and throw it to the treif, and the rest you could eat. He felt very bad because after all, one of the treifs got mixed in. The shochtim felt very bad, but they didn't know what to do. And this is observed in the depaskent. Then he says, when they were on the way home, I don't know, to the airport or on the way home by car, whatever, I don't remember that detail, one of the shochtim, Chapsach, realized that there is a way that they could check to which behemoth this lung belongs and to know which one is really the treifet. They turned around, they went back to the shlachtois, and they came, and they did it. There were certain numbers on this. I don't know exactly how they did it, but there were numbers that they were able to figure out. They came back, and they looked, and it turned out that the one animal that they threw out, that was the real treif animal. So he says, here we see that the Rav Paskens, the Ebreshtes on his side, and it turned out that really when he told them to throw out one, that was really the treif one. It shows the keyach of a psak din of a Rav.