Q&A: Water Fit for a Dog to Drink
Water Fit for a Dog to Drink
Question
When people say water that is fit for a dog to drink, I assume they mean fit for drinking aside from the aesthetic barrier that keeps a person from drinking it. Am I right? Or is it a different measure?
As for the gathering at Bar-Ilan, are there details?
Thank you very much, dear Michi
Answer
The details about the gathering appear here on the left (there is an orange notice).
I didn’t understand who says this and where it is said. Something fit for a dog is something a dog would drink or eat. Not only because of aesthetics, but also because of taste.
Discussion on Answer
Subsection 9 there:
Salty, foul-smelling, or bitter water that a dog cannot drink is invalid for hand-washing, even though it is valid as mikveh water for immersion; and if it is cloudy because mud got mixed into it, then if a dog can drink from it, it is valid both for hand-washing and for a mikveh, and if it cannot drink from it, it is invalid for both.
What is unclear here? The Shulchan Arukh itself explains what is meant.
I understand that you’re swamped with your clusters of threads, but it seems to me the question is simple: what is this criterion based on, both in principle and in practice when there’s no dog around?
Again, is the difference between what a dog drinks and what a person drinks a matter of taste level—meaning that a dog is simply able to drink things with a poorer taste—or is it just that a dog doesn’t have the aesthetic test?
“Salty, foul-smelling, or bitter… cloudy because mud got mixed into it.” It’s worth simply reading before asking. Do you expect me to have a dog-meter that measures the amount of bitterness or foulness and the like? I don’t have such equipment.
I don’t understand this discussion here.
Yes, afterward I saw it, but one does not answer the questioner.
(I’ll admit that relative to my expectations, at least at the moment mainly in the third part, the gathering looks a bit sparse for traveling all the way there.)
I meant the halakhic parameter, Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim sec. 160. And if it’s a matter of taste, how can that be measured?