Re: honey [was: Hakafot on Shmini Atzeret]

RnTK:
> From: "Jonathan Baker" <jjbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>Other  well-known halachot based on "mistakes": the kashrut of bee-honey
> > (when the  text meant date-honey) <<

> Shimshon and Yonasan both ate bee honey.  Not a mistake,  obviously.

Yes, but interestingly, both were assur.  One for being eaten from
the innards of a dead non-kosher animal, the other for being eaten
in contravention of an oath.

So yes, linguistically, devash can be bee-honey, there's still no
evidence that as bee-honey, it's muttar.

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