[Avodah] chumrot of sefardim

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 6:37 pm, Chana Luntz wrote:
:> I do not know when one can simply ignore a rejected shitah, and
:> even pasqen lequlah on de'Oraisos
:>  -- clearly NOT safeiq behavior, and when we treat a
:> machloqes like a safeiq. I have asked this on-list before.

: I am not sure I understand what you are asking here.  If you are
: asking
: when you can go against local psak when there are others who pasken
: differently ...

I'm not. You wrote on Mon, May 14, 2007 6:42 pm:
: It is more complicated than that.  Basically there is are concepts in
: halacha that even if you hold one way in l'chatchila circumstances -
: l'din, if there are other poskim who hold differently, you can rely on
: those other opinions (even if it is a yachid v'rabim type debate) in
: sha'a hadachak type situations).  The idea is that if you have a vadai
: machlokus haposkim, that is a form of safek d'rabbanan, on which you
: can rule l'kula if you have extenuating circumstances...

IOW, there are times when a machloqes is treated as a form of safeiq.
However, in most cases we do not; we even often rule lequlah on
deOraisos based on choosing one shitah over another. I was commenting
on my inability to distinguish between the two circumstances. When is
a machloqes "a form of safeiq derabbanan" and when not?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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