And @UJM, you still haven’t answered the question you were asked originally. How do you explain gemaras where chazal were just plain wrong? I offered a few explanations, which work according to my shitta (and likely yours as well if you thought about it), but according to you, in which chazal were infallible and knew absolutely everything, how for example could they think that having a women sit on a barrel of wine and smelling her breath is a way of being able to tell that she is still a besulah? It just isn’t!
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