HaLeiVi: Be careful how you say that though. R’ Aharon would say such a thing when he has backup for it and thinks it’s the Emes, not just willy-nilly. He believes that there is Chochmah in what the Goyim do and believes that many Rishonim and Acharonim thought this as well (we know for a fact that the Rambam did). And I believe I once heard that he very strongly disagreed with Elman’s theory that anything Halachic ever came from Persian influence (with the possible exceptions of Shuman HaGid and waiting 7 days for Dam K’chardal).
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