[Avodah] [Areivim] Polygamy

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Feb 1, 2008 10:58 AM, Rich, Joel <JRich at sibson.com> wrote:

>
>
> ==================================================
> Correct - but of course the gemara and poskim quote many rov's and I
> have little idea how to tell which is which (although R' YBS seemed to
> say that one was due to a pasuk).  I asked R' Rosenzweig in the context
> of his chulin shiur and got a smile.
>
> I also wonder how chazal decided based on anecdotal evidence when to
> declare a rov like rov mumchin etzel shechita and would they consider
> other factors (e.g. meat in a small town where people had an aberrant
> predilection to shecht without knowledge0
>
> KT
> Joel Rich
>

That's why A poseik needs the 5th Heilek of Shulchan Aruch at his disposal
at all times.  A knee-jerk reactor to a text, code, or Teshuva will not make
a great poseik,

-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20080202/d1bc9871/attachment-0002.htm>