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February 1, 2017 2:53 pm at 2:53 pm
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Takahmamash: Does machlokes also mean that “there is solid halachic backing to hold either way” (takahmamash)?
If something is a machlokes, it is a debated argument with opposing sides; do each sides always have a solid argument that one can follow?
Or do some machlokes come to a consensus that we do it __this__ way?
For example, the whole debate about a mezuzah going up vertically vs horizontally. Eventually it was decided that we affix mezuzot diagonally.
—-Was and/or is that a “machlokes”?