<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Meir Rabi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meirabi@gmail.com">meirabi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It is one of the Rishonim who said that if not for being intimidated he would have ruled that Chamets is Battel on Pesach as per the regulat guidelines of Bittul, BUT he was worried of being labelled as that Rabbi The Meikel.
<div><br></div><div>Rabbenu Tam. quoted by Rabbeinu Peretz Pesachim second chapter.</div><div><br></div><div>Question: How could he say that?</div><div>This is Assur, the judges and the rabbi s are instructed NOT to be intimidated but to state their opinion without prejudice or fear?</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>meir</div></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>He just did say it :-). If he was really afraid to say it he wouldn't have put it like that. He would have just left out that halacha. I was in the semicha shiur for a few months, and while there we were taught that whenever a posek says "If I were not afraid I would say" (which is how all the meikel psakim start off) that is his true opinion and how he paskens li'halacha.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yosef Skolnick </div></div>