Reply To: Pesach questions

DY: The Amoraim obviously didn’t feel that way or they wouldn’t have asked the kashya.
Pretty sure that comment of yours is kefirah. It’s definitely really stupid.

I am not complete sure about pairs – they do quote a couple of baraitot.. do we have any other earlier sources? Gemora mentions later that Israelis did not care much: בְּמַעְרְבָא לָא קָפְדִי אַזּוּגֵי confirming that somehow Babylonians were more into it. .. Were the western chachamim also kefirim? Btw, Babylonians were more likely to drink Persian kefir drink …

I don’t think it is a question whether Bavli knew about some Persian culture, same way Chafetz Chaim uses Czar in his parabolas, or American Rabbis are influenced by some of the values of democracy existing in USA.

Question is what they do with those values. From simple reading, it seems that Bavli tries on one hand to minimize worries (they go thru a lot of exceptions of what pairs are not a problem), but still acknowledge that those who care are affected more, but others still might:
כׇּל דְּקָפֵיד — קָפְדִי בַּהֲדֵיהּ, וּדְלָא קָפֵיד — לָא קָפְדִי בַּהֲדֵיהּ, וּמִיהוּ לְמֵיחַשׁ מִיבְּעֵי