Reply To: This Has Nothing to do With Techeiles PBA

The Kal Vachomer is made up of the case of the kal and the case of the chamur. The kal in this case is that Achitofel deserved kavod for teaching Torah. For the sake of making my point let’s pretend that Achitofel taught Dovid the entire Torah. Now we have a kal aspect of the case which is that the teacher was a rasha but we have a chamur aspect of the case in that he taught him a tremendous amount. When applying that to a regular person we have a tzad chamur that the teacher is less of a rasha but we have a tzad kal that he taught less Torah. In other words there are two factors determining the kal and chamur – one is the righteousness of the teacher and one is the amount of Torah taught, both of which ostensibly can affect the requirement of giving kavod. So we wouldn’t know which one is more chamur and there would be no kal vachomer. Just like by isha and ama ivriya we don’t know which is more chamur because isha can be acquired through biah and ama ivriya can be released through kesef.