<br><br><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="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; 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><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>I believe this is the [alleged] P'saq of the Sh'eiltos<br><br>What Rabbeinu Tam and others have done IMHO is simple<br>
They told everyone how they held<br>BUT they deferred to the consensus anyway<br>Either out of humility or as a POLICY - probably so as not to play the REBEL. <br> <br>Of course one may ask that posqim do play the role of Rebel at times... I would venture that they pick their fights and do so only in extraordinary cases.<br>
<br><br><br>-- <br>Frelichen Purim<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/</a><br>
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