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

80 THE ROYAL TABLE
Hence the annulment is really made here too in the usual
fashion by sixty volumes. 48
If a piece of meat should be
cooked entirely without salting, however, sixty times the
volume of the entire piece of meat will be required to annul
it and make the contents of the pot edible; and even then
the offending piece should be discarded. 44
Meat and chicken may be salted together; but neither
of these may be salted with fish, since the latter contains
less blood and expels it very fast, and will then begin to
absorb the blood given off by the meat or fowl. There is
blood from each
no danger of two pieces of meat absorbing
other, as only one process can go on at a time either
expulsion or absorption; hence any number of pieces may
be salted together on the same board. 45 In case meat and
fish are salted together the former may be eaten, but not
the latter. The reason is obvious: the fish is constantly
absorbing the blood given off by the meat, but the latter
is too busy giving off blood to absorb anything
from the
fish. Should the fish be salted with its scales, the fish
may also be eaten, as this covering makes the fish impervious
to the blood of the meat. 46
Unsalted chicken placed
together with salted fish does not affect the edibility of
either. Likewise, if both are salted, but the fish is placed
above the meat or chicken, both are edible, for the blood
will travel down, not up. 47
Kosher meat becomes trefah
If salted together with trefah meat; and if the kosher meat
alone is sprinkled with salt, and the trefah meat is un-
ealted, the kosher meat will remain edible only when the
two are merely adjacent but do not press upon each other. 48
m See Chapter VII for a treatment of the subject of annulment.
a Y. D. 699 11.
a Hullin 113; Y. D. 70, 1, Ramah.
* Ibid.
w Y. D. 70, 1, 2, Ramah.
* Ibid. 3, following the second opinion (Ran and Rashba).