Rov vs. Two Chazakos and Pierced Esophagus as Neveilah or Treifah

Description

Rabbi Akiva Eiger resolves his grandson's challenge to the Rivash's principle that rov cannot override two chazakos, explaining that even so a safek results, and showing how this resolves Tosfos's difficulties in the tinok etzel isah sugya. He further resolves a secondary problem regarding nikvas ha'veshet by distinguishing it as a miut d'miuta — an exceedingly rare minority — even among treifos, though he does not issue a definitive ruling.