Reply To: Do I owe my neighbor kosher meat or treif meat?

lasken –
1. “You only have pay the neighbor the price of treif meat” – the neighbour isn’t asking for cash, the neighbour wants a pound of meat returned from this pot, which is now kosher meat.
2. ” a mazik pays מה שהזיק ” – the neighbour was not mazik anything by dropping the treif meat into the kosher meats – everything stayed kosher, but the neighbour’s meat became kosher now, is he entitled to it?

Lerntin – “Not sure your psak in the yoreh deah part is correct. It takes a while for that one pound to fall into the pot… while it falls you might have chaticha naasis neveila. Plus one pound of meat is difficult to get mixed in so quickly so it’s be’en… you are mechuyav to remove what’s be’en.”

– the question was one pound of treif chopped meat which mixes immediately into the pot of cooking 60 pounds of kosher chopped meat (which is a huge mixture). But even if it was 60 pieces of meat of kosher meat (e.g. steaks) and one piece of treif meat (steak) – a classic case of ta’aruvos (chaticha na’aseh neveila has no application here), if all the meat is mixed together and the issur cannot be distinguished (it is not b’ein) it is bottel and all 61 steaks or pounds of chopped meat are kosher.

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