<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2008 10:58 AM, Rich, Joel <<a href="mailto:JRich@sibson.com">JRich@sibson.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>==================================================<br>Correct - but of course the gemara and poskim quote many rov's and I<br>have little idea how to tell which is which (although R' YBS seemed to<br>say that one was due to a pasuk). I asked R' Rosenzweig in the context<br>
of his chulin shiur and got a smile.<br><br>I also wonder how chazal decided based on anecdotal evidence when to<br>declare a rov like rov mumchin etzel shechita and would they consider<br>other factors (e.g. meat in a small town where people had an aberrant<br>
predilection to shecht without knowledge0<br><br>KT<br>Joel Rich<br></blockquote></div><br>That's why A poseik needs the 5th Heilek of Shulchan Aruch at his disposal at all times. A knee-jerk reactor to a text, code, or Teshuva will not make a great poseik, <br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>