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I wrote: > That being the case, on whom does KOF-K rely to be machmir on this question? <BR><BR>
R. Wolpoe wrote: <<RDK seems to say that it is more than permitted to be someich upon RMF, that absent another dei'ah one MUST be someich on RMF!>><BR><BR>
I'll admit that I was being a bit cheeky framing my question as I did (i.e. implying that you need to find a source to be machmir). However, to quote R. Micha from an earlier post, I did mean it as a question, not as a challenge.<BR>
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Of course, RMF was known for his chiddushim, much like the AhS, and I understand very well that if his position in this teshuva was a daas yachid, it would not be relied on by the organisations that issue hechsherim. My question was really whether RMF's opinion in this teshuva is a daas yachid. Answers to this question have already been provided, including RZS's answer that things have changed since 1955. The metzius trumps chazakos any day. I suppose that is why RMF's teshuva puzzles me, in that he jumps straight to halachic principles without having any regard to the metzius at hand. Maybe he was assuming that the questioner, who was himself also a posek with a particular case before him, was aware of the metzuis himself, and was only seeking clarification of the barebones halachic issues.<BR>
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There is another issue which I think might lurk behind these issues. I have seen somewhere, probably here in Avodah, that one of RMF's sons was once asked to explain why his father advised schools not to rely on his hetter for chalev hacompanies. The answer was that principles like yediah k'r'iya are all very well, but the reality is that we don't really know whether milk was milked from a cow unless someone saw it with his eyes. He seemed to draw a, dare I say, baalabatish distinction between halachic reality and actual reality, implying that to rely on the former is, nebech, a kula. Perhaps this is what underlies some of the discussion we are having about reliance on lists, hechsherim, etc.<BR>
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Kol tuv<BR>Dov Kaiser<BR>
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