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# Water that was used to soak food and taste changed because of it is not subject to gilui.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:9)</ref> | # Water that was used to soak food and taste changed because of it is not subject to gilui.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:9)</ref> | ||
==Other Factors== | ==Other Factors== | ||
# The suspicion applies both day and night.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:11), Tur (Yoreh Deah 116:1) | # The suspicion applies both day and night.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:11), Tur (Yoreh Deah 116:1)</ref> | ||
# Beverages left unattended for as long as it takes for a small snake to slither out from under the handle of the container, take a sip, and return, becomes prohibited.<ref>Chullin 10a</ref> | # Beverages left unattended for as long as it takes for a small snake to slither out from under the handle of the container, take a sip, and return, becomes prohibited.<ref>Chullin 10a</ref> | ||
# If one is awake near an uncovered container of one of these beverages, there is no issue of gilui, but, if he's sleeping, his guard does not protect the beverages from the issur of Mayim Megulim.<ref>Avodah Zarah 30a</ref> However, a consistent drip of water from one container into a lower one would at least permit the lower one and perhaps also the top one.<ref>Avodah Zarah 30b. See Beit Yosef (Yoreh Deah 116:1), Taz, and Pri Chadash.</ref> | # If one is awake near an uncovered container of one of these beverages, there is no issue of gilui, but, if he's sleeping, his guard does not protect the beverages from the issur of Mayim Megulim.<ref>Avodah Zarah 30a</ref> However, a consistent drip of water from one container into a lower one would at least permit the lower one and perhaps also the top one.<ref>Avodah Zarah 30b. See Beit Yosef (Yoreh Deah 116:1), Taz, and Pri Chadash.</ref> | ||
# If the wine is stagnant in a closed or deep pit, it remains permitted, as long as one ensured there was nothing else inside and there is no hole. If there is a hole, depending on the size, it could be problematic. Similarly, a stream of water is not subject to the prohibition.<ref>Rambam Hilchot Rotzeach 11:13</ref> | # If the wine is stagnant in a closed or deep pit, it remains permitted, as long as one ensured there was nothing else inside and there is no hole. If there is a hole, depending on the size, it could be problematic. Similarly, a stream of water is not subject to the prohibition.<ref>Rambam Hilchot Rotzeach 11:13</ref> | ||
# Bediavad, one may not do anything with mayim megulim and must discard it, even if he already cooked food with it.<ref>Rambam | # Bediavad, one may not do anything with mayim megulim and must discard it, even if he already cooked food with it.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:16). See Pri Chadash (Yoreh Deah 116:1) and Shiurei Beracha ad loc. 6 for a discussion of the matter.</ref> Therefore, one may not feed it to his or his fellow's animals or wash himself or anything else with it.<ref>Avodah Zarah 20b, Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:15).</ref> Even a barrel that was left uncovered and then drank from by people who did not get sick afterwards may not be drunk from further, because venom from snakes of different ages has a spectrum of potency and density, so it could have sunk further down.<ref>Rambam (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:14)</ref> | ||
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