[Avodah] dinosaurs

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> At 4:42pm EST, Zev Sero replied to RnISE:
> : "Elu Va'elu Divrei Elokim Chayim" was a message from Above about BH and
> : BS, not about everybody. A similar message is recorded in Shu"T Min
> : Hashamayim about the tefilin of Rashi and Rabbenu Tam. Other than these
> : two examples I'm not aware of any guarantee that in any given machlokes
> : both are DECh...
> 
> Except that my post referred to the Ritva (Eiruvin 13b), the Ramban,
> Rashi (Kesuvos 57a, "QM"L"), the Maharshal, the Maharal and R' Tzadoq,
> all of which assume that the norm for a machloqes is that both sides are
> correct.

I'm sure it is the norm; but we have no way of knowing for sure to
which machloksin it applies and to which it doesn't, except for the
ones about which we've been told explicitly that it does apply.
AFAIK those are: the entire set of Beis Hillel/Beis Shammai disputes,
and the Rashi/Rabbenu Tam dispute about tefillin.  Other than those,
we may be able to say that both sides are *probably* DECh, but I
don't think we can say it with certainty.

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