4/18/26 – Shiur 556 – What's new with Chodosh - Facts on the ground | Why are people so lenient about a Din in the Torah?

About this episode

The episode discusses the leniency in Jewish law regarding Chodosh and the implications of relying on safek in contemporary practice.

Why do we rely on leniency these day when the Heter was due to שעת הדחק and we don't have a shortage of food? If the Heter is based on Safek, nowadays the Safek is verifiable and can't be relied uponIf a store has information posted that it's not Yoshon - there's no Safek at all - what do people rely on?Why are people making on Stam Cholov which is maybe a Safek Derabbanan and not on this?If a person needed to eat because of פיקוח נפש and it was a question of הקל הקל תחלה should he eat Chodosh or drink Stam Cholov?People spend a lot of money and time checking vegtables for bugs which the obligation to check is Derabanan but blatantly eat Chodosh - why?Why are Chasidim so lenient - How does a story from the Baal Shem Tov uproot Halacha - even if it's true we go with halacha not stories - we can uproot all the Torah if it's controlled by stories not Halacha?Chassidim specifically love to quote Chasam Sofer "חדש אסור מן התורה" - when it comes to any slight deviance of Minhag or even culture - and חדש itself they don't care about? with Rabbi Menachem Genack – Leading poseik of the OU, Rov in Englewood – 17:35with Rabbi Dovid Gorelik – Rabbinic Coordinator of the OU – 17:35with Rabbi…

People in this episode

Guests: Rabbi Menachem Genack, Rabbi Dovid Gorelik, Rabbi Yaakov Teichman

Topics covered

• Chodosh
• Halacha
• leniency in Jewish law
• food shortages
• Chasidim
• Torah
• safek

Keywords

• Chodosh
• Halacha
• leniency
• safek
• Torah
• Chasidim
• food
• Yoshon
• Stam Cholov
• Baal Shem Tov

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OU, OK Kosher

Places: Englewood

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