Reply To: About the Government of Israel, I do shudder

And please, check Pesochim 74B (that neither of you mentions)

I did, and I addressed your erroneous point.

We argues aveilus already. The fact that there needs to be a rule specifically about aveilus is proof that we don’t have such a rule in general.

It doesn’t say “kula odif”. It says “koach d’heteira odif”. As Sam points out (it’s really Rash”i), it means you need to be more certain to be meikil, so the meikil perforce is confident in his psak.