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to the aptly self-named rabbi of berlin:

ok, I will one last go at it, though I am not sure why,

I really have nothing new to add.

You suggest I google for more info in borokovsky;

o.k. I will do that. perhaps I will change my mind on that point.

but just to say again what poster after poster has tried to explain to you, yes rabbanim are very makil in these cases.

But they don’t take your attitude that there is always a heter

to be found or made up to avoid an unpleasant situation.

And it is also important for people to realize that a kulah for the possible mamzer can lead to chumros and problems for many others or even the subject himself.

Thank you for pointing out that sofek mamzer is mutar m’dioraisa,

since none of us arguing with you could possibly have known that.

And I know you think we didn’t know that because you wrote zil gmor. Since you know this, you must also know that omdu chachamim v’asu maaleh byuchsin. They forbade shtuki v’asufi even though the sofek is a stretch. They didnt have your modern, enlightened attitude. They preferred to protect kedushas yisroel.

Poster after poster has tried to point out to you that being makil does not mean being moreh shelo c’halacha. But you obviously think it does or at least it should.

There is no point in discussing particular cases with you such as the OP or the Langer case. It is your attitude we disdain.

And we aren’t imagining the attitude. You gave yourself away when you wrote “rav Goren did the right thing when he..” Who are you to say so? Reminder, I did not comment on the psak but on your double standard. You didn’t even say his psak was correct, which you couldn’t possibly know due to ignorance of all the facts and the halacha, but he ‘did the right thing’, the halacha itself being just an obstacle to overcome.