[Avodah] “the miracle of judging by smell” was (Re: R. Akiva, Bar Kochba and Zecharya HaNovi)

[hankman]

R. J. Meisner wrote:

“
Reaching a correct psak in any area of halacha requires obtaining a full picture of the situation, including all relevant details and the particular context. This requires that the posek have skill in asking questions that will clarify these points and recognizing when, intentionally or not, the answers he is receiving do not reflect the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Perhaps it is this sense that the navi is referring to.

Joshua Meisner”


But no matter how skilled the judge is at getting at the truth, even if all he need so is be moreiach, this still does not lessen the requirement of 2 eidim for many judgments.

While reading your response to me, another thought occurred to me and upon reflection it may be that this is also what you meant.
Perhaps when the gemara stated that he can be moreaiach veda’in that the gemara meant not that he would only need to question the defendant, and could smell whether he is guilty or not and pasken  based on the surety of his conclusion, but perhaps the gemara meant that when questioning the EIDIM he was able merely smell them and then judge the credibility of the eidim whether he should accept them as credible or not and thus pasken the case accordingly.

Kol tuv
Chaim Manaster


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