<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">I recall hearing once that the halacha of "safek d'Oraisa l'chumra" is only</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">d'rabanan. In other words, if one has a legitimate safek about whether he</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">did a d'Oraisa, then it is a smart idea and/or a rabbinic obligation to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">resolve that safek, but he is not required by the Torah to do so. >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Rambam holds that safek deoratita lechumra is a rabbinic law while the Rashba disagrees and says it is a torah law,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Some want to distinguish between different types of safek</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">1) safek in the :metziut"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">2) safek in the din</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">3) machloket poskim<br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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