In regards to all אחרונים ופוסקים that the above Yabia Omer compiled – opposing pe’ah nuchris vs Matirim -there are two points we need to know.
a) One point, which I heard from a Posek Gadol, the fact that there are X amount of Later Poskim that wrote Teshuvot against it and X supporting – comparing them is really an insufficient way of determining anything. For a very simple reason; in the places where they did go, there was no need for any Posek to actually pen it in writing ‘supporting’ it, as it has already been permitted by all our founding Poskim i.e.:
, רמ”א, שט”ג, מגן אברהם, לבוש, פרישה, אליה רבה, פמ”ג, “שו”ע הרב, מחצית השקל, באר היטב, ביאור הגר”א
and later….. משנ”ב, כף החיים…
Therefore, the true amount of Poskim that really support it cannot be determined by anything, and the ones that wrote in support happen to have been the ones that were covering those Simanim in Shulchan Aruch. Rather, the ones opposing were the ONLY ones that really opposed it (for various diff reasons – see next) – all the rest agreed, as the final above Psak Din.
b) Another point we need to examine is, the ones that did oppose it, was it since that was the Minhag at the time, and thus going with any pe’ah nuchris was a breach in Das Yehudit, and that is the very reason they opposed or not. Would these very poskim permit it once there is a change in the actual Minhag, or doesn’t it really matter? If yes – then most of the ones that are quoted as אוסרים are really irrelevant.
– to be cont. –