DaasYochid and Toi: of course, as you both intimate, it is a “kabboloh” that in a machlokes between Rav Acha and Ravina (the amoroim in this case), where it is not stipulated who is who (chad omar, char omar), we always pasken lekuloh-but it is they “why” that I am interested in. Why would we pasken like Ravina in the whole of shas (when he paskens lekuloh) and suddenly, in three cases we switch sides and pasken like Rav Acha- who is the one who paskens this time lekuloh. What motivates the gemoro to abandon Ravina (who,in these cases, is lechumro)and pasken like Rav Acha? Clearly, as rashi says, because he paskens lekuloh. To me, this is clear evidence that the gemoro prefers to pasken lekuloh.
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