[Avodah] isnt koach of being maykil greater??

[Zev Sero]

On 15/08/2011 5:22 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:01:40PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Oh, and the answer to the question in the Subject header is that you have
>> completely misunderstood that line.  It takes more certainty to be meikil,
>> precisely because one may always be machmir, whether it's necessary or not,
>> so when in doubt that's what one should do...

> I don't think this is quite correct either. (And we last visiteed this
> just last March!)
>
> The idiom is used twice in shas, Berakhos 60a and Beitza 2b. As Rashi
> puts it in Beitza ("deheteira adif leih"), "tov lo lehashmi'einu koach
> divrei hamatir".
>
> When there is a machloqes tannaim that has two possible cases, and one
> has more reason to be pasqened lequlah than the other. The makhloqes
> will be phrased as being about the more machmir case, because it's more
> important to show how meiqil the tanna who is matir actually is being.

And why is it more important?  Because it's *harder* to be meikil.
Because one may *not* be meikil if one is in doubt.  So quoting a case
where someone is machmir doesn't prove that they really hold that way,
while quoting a case where he was meikil does prove it.


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