[Avodah] psak/feelings

[Joel Rich]

Very interesting. I’ve heard him tell the same story, but I think the punchline was that even if the reasons were not strong, the psak
 was right (more of a testament to heavenly intervention in psak-along the line of the donkey of Pinchas Ben Yair)
Bsorot tovot 
Joel rich
> On 1 May 2024, at 16:30, Marty Bluke via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
> 
> RHS told the following story many times in shiur. The Chasam Sofer would write his teshuvos and leave them on the desk for his son, the Ksav Sofer, to review and mail. One day he saw that the teshuva that he had written the previous day was still sitting there. He asked his son why he didn’t mail it. His son answered that the questioner was a big Talmud chacham and the teshuva was short with a weak proof. The Chasam Sofer told his son that he paskened based on his initial feeling and then looked at the sugya to make sure he was right and therefore the proofs were