[Avodah] Klalei horaah

[Joshua Meisner]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Rich, Joel <JRich at sibson.com> wrote:

>  Why did the gemara come up with klalei horaah (rules for psak) rather
> than deciding each disagreement on its own merits?(e.g. was Rav always right
> in cases of issurin?)
> KT
> Joel Rich
>
>

I assumed that the klalei hora'ah were algorithms *based on* having decided
each disagreement on its own merits.  Once this process was completed, the
gemara states its conclusions that, e.g., Rav wins every machlokes in
issurin over Shmuel, and that we only follow Abbayei over Rava in 6 cases.
After all, even the exceptionless klalei hapsak don't always pan out
la-halacha.


Joshua Meisner
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