Cohn, Jacob. The Royal Table - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web

108 THE ROYAL TABLE
with a thousand other chickens, and it should be impossible
to recognize the faulty one, none of them may be
eaten, since the prohibition against a living being cannot
be removed by annulment in mixtures. If the fowl were
all killed without knowledge of the circumstances, all of
them may be eaten, for the dead fowl can be annulled. 35
That which will of itself become permitted with the
passage of time cannot be annulled by any number of volumes.
86 For example, an egg laid on a holiday may not
be used until after the holiday, for all food used on yomtov
must be prepared, or be in existence at least, in ad-
vance. If such an egg be mixed on the holiday with any
number of other eggs laid previously to the holiday, none
of them may be used, for on the morrow all of them will
be permitted without recourse to an annulment through
mixture. 87 This law applies only to homogeneous mixtures
(WD3 pD);' in heterogeneous mixtures (U'D U'KP3 ptt)
the normal rule of annulment by sixty volumes prevails. 38
Forbidden things which can be made permitted without
any expense, are not amenable to the laws of annulment;
but when there is expense, even though it be trifling, one
may have recourse to annulment. For example, a piece
of unsalted meat which becomes mixed with two pieces of
salted meat becomes permitted without salting; even though
all the pieces could be resalted, and thus recourse to an-
nulment avoided, one is not required to go to the expense
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resalting. Similarly, a trefah spoon which becomes
mixed with two kosher spoons, becomes usable; even
85
Y. D. 100, 2.
*
Beza 3a; Y. D 102, 1.
"Ibid.
w
Ibid.; Shack ad loc.
88
Ibid. 2. Other authorities assign another reason for this law,
viz.- it is not the meat which is here prohibited, but the blood
which it contains, and that becomes annulled in the usual fashion.