Q&A: Clear Pork Soup
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Clear Pork Soup
Question
Hello Rabbi,
Is eating soup made from a forbidden food a Torah-level prohibition, or a rabbinic prohibition?
Also, suppose someone eats a cooked dish made of several ingredients — do you need to eat an olive-sized amount of the forbidden substance itself, or is an olive-sized amount of the dish enough, for example when it is ground up? And what about a mixture?
Answer
It depends on how much forbidden substance was there relative to how much liquid. In general, there is nullification in sixty.
For a forbidden mixture that became prohibited, the relevant measure is from the entire mixture.