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

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:55:49PM -0500, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: What Rabbeinu Tam and others have done IMHO is simple
: They told everyone how they held
: BUT they deferred to the consensus anyway
: Either out of humility or as a POLICY - probably so as not to play the
: REBEL.

Or mimeticism. IOW, heuristically speaking, R' Tam thought that the
sevara for allowing bitul was stronger, but not strong enough to give
that "pro" enough to outweigh minhag Yisrael.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha