Apropos of what ROB posted, I am reminded of a shailah that I myself had. Though the shailah was something else it was on par with a kashrus question. I was prepared to “throw out the entire pot of soup,” metaphorically speaking, but decided before doing so, to ask a shailah anyway, though I felt sure it would be assur, not muttar. My Rov who was a respected chaver of R’ Moshe Zt”L, paskened muttar, and I was beyond shocked. left to my own devices I would have been machmir had I not asked the shailah. When I thanked the Rov and told him I fully expected him to say “treif,” he told me that ANYONE can pasken that something is assur. It takes a real lamdan to know when it is permissible and find the kullah (that exists for a reason!).
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