[Avodah] Who Said This? How could he say that?

[Yosef Skolnick]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Meir Rabi <meirabi at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is one of the Rishonim who said that if not for being intimidated he
> would have ruled that Chamets is Battel on Pesach as per the regulat
> guidelines of Bittul, BUT he was worried of being labelled as that Rabbi The
> Meikel.
>
> Rabbenu Tam. quoted by Rabbeinu Peretz Pesachim second chapter.
>
> Question:  How could he say that?
> This is Assur, the judges and the rabbi s are instructed NOT to be
> intimidated but to state their opinion without prejudice or fear?
>
> meir
>

He just did say it :-).  If he was really afraid to say it he wouldn't have
put it like that.  He would have just left out that halacha.  I was in the
semicha shiur for a few months, and while there we were taught that whenever
a posek says "If I were not afraid I would say" (which is how all the meikel
psakim start off) that is his true opinion and how he paskens li'halacha.

Yosef Skolnick
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