<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Rich, Joel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JRich@sibson.com" target="_blank">JRich@sibson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Why did the gemara come up with klalei horaah (rules for psak) rather than deciding each disagreement on its own merits?(e.g. was Rav always right in cases of issurin?)</div>
<div>KT<br>
Joel Rich</div>
<div> <br></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br>I assumed that the klalei hora'ah were algorithms *based on* having decided each disagreement on its own merits. Once this process was completed, the gemara states its conclusions that, e.g., Rav wins every machlokes in issurin over Shmuel, and that we only follow Abbayei over Rava in 6 cases. After all, even the exceptionless klalei hapsak don't always pan out la-halacha.<br>
<br><br>Joshua Meisner<br>