Knows How to Purify the Sheretz from the Torah, with 150 Arguments

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Knows How to Purify the Sheretz from the Torah, with 150 Arguments

Figuratively: a person with vast and broad knowledge who knows how to find arguments for anything (literally: can find one hundred and fifty arguments to declare that a sheretz is pure according to the Torah, even though it is clear to everyone that it is completely impure. K"N in gematria equals one hundred and fifty).

("A veteran student was with Rabbi, and he would purify the sheretz and render it impure a hundred times" - Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1; and likewise: "Only one who knows how to purify the sheretz is appointed to the Sanhedrin" - Sanhedrin 17a; and likewise: "There arose in Yavneh a veteran student who would purify the sheretz with 150 arguments, meaning that he would purify the sheretz completely" - Torat Chaim, tractate Sanhedrin 17a; and likewise: "They flood us with a deluge of articles and books... and each one tries to justify his own position with 150 arguments and prove the halakhah to be like him everywhere" - Berdyczewski / Writings, vol. 2, 95)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יוֹדֵעַ לְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ מִן הַתּוֹרָה, יוֹדֵעַ לְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ בק"ן טְעָמִים

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: בַּעַל יֶדַע גָּדוֹל וְרָחָב שֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ לִמְצֹא נִמּוּקִים לְכָל דָּבָר (מִלּוּלִית: יָכוֹל לִמְצֹא מֵאָה חֲמִשִּׁים נִמּוּקִים כְּדֵי לִקְבֹּעַ שֶׁשֶּׁרֶץ הוּא טָהוֹר ע"פ הַתּוֹרָה עַל אַף שֶׁבָּרוּר לַכֹּל שֶׁהוּא טָמֵא לְגַמְרֵי. ק"ן בְּגִימַטְרִיָּה מֵאָה וַחֲמִשִּׁים).

("תַּלְמִיד וָתִיק הָיָה לְרַבִּי וְהָיָה מְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ וּמְטַמְּאוֹ מֵאָה פְּעָמִים"- יְרוּשַׁלְמִי סַנְהֶדְרִין ד, א, וְכֵן:"אֵין מוֹשִׁיבִין בְּסַנְהֶדְרִין אֶלָּא מִי שֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ לְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ"- סַנְהֶדְרִין יז ע"א, וְכֵן:"עָלָה תַּלְמִיד וָתִיק הָיָה בְּיַבְנֶה שֶׁהָיָה מְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ בק"נ טְעָמִים מַשְׁמָע שֶׁהָיָה מְטַהֵר אֶת הַשֶּׁרֶץ לְגַמְרֵי"-תּוֹרַת חַיִּים מַסֶּכֶת סַנְהֶדְרִין יז ע"א, וְכֵן:"הֵמָּה מְצִיפִים עָלֵינוּ מַבּוּל שֶׁל מַאֲמָרִים וּסְפָרִים...וְכָל אֶחָד מִשְׁתַּדֵּל לְטַהֵר שִׁיטָתוֹ בק"ן טְעָמִים וּלְהוֹכִיחַ הֲלָכָה כְּמוֹתוֹ בְּכָל מָקוֹם"- בֶּרְדִּיצֶ'בְסְקִי/ כְּתָבִים, ב, 95)

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