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DY, so what is your Rav for?

Don’t we all need someone to blame when we want to be meikil? 😉

Are we now bound by every aggadata? And ,even if this is in the affirmative, why must I be bound by the Chazon Ish? there are many other acharonim who disagree.

Who?

Anyhow, why would you want to take a chance on being a kofer and lose your olam habo?

LAB, this thread was about girls, so unless your subtitle is true…

DY, would you hire a contractor under the same premise?

No. But I would a shadchan, because they can only expect the going rate, not more.

I think there is an inyan of gneivas daas when you are not told in advance what to reasonably expect.

You can think what you want, but that’s not the halacha.

A shadchan could charge ANYTHING then, after the fact.

Also untrue. That error explains much of your misunderstanding of the entire issue.

Eidei yichud.

That’s what your Rav is for.

To ignorantly label things modern day chumrahs when they’re not? No, that’s not what my Rav is for.

LF, I don’t assume ROB ch’v meant to cast aspersions on Moshe Rabeinu, rather to point out that he had to choose, for the batei din, unbiased people.

ROB, I am not defending all “poskim” as being unbiased. But you should look at the Chazon Ish I quoted.

Lol, when you do get married, popa, I suggest you don’t tell your mother in law your username, otherwise when she sees this post, she’ll disown you.

No, nor the pudding. I substituted a cheese danish. Otherwise, it was exactly the same.

Health, I do think that that’s what he believes, unfortunately, that’s not a z’chus.

When the experts all maintain that they must be washed in soap, because they are matzuy, there’s no such thing as an amateur “holding” that they’re not matzuy and that you don’t need to. That’s not a legitimate shittah, that’s self delusion.

ROB, I apologize for my strong tone, but I feel that your posting of this outlandish “kula” in a public forum is a michshol d’rabbim.

Did you try the ketchup duck?

PAA, the footnote in Michtav M’Eliyahu says that Chazal’s halachos were inherently correct, but not for the reasons they said. Presumably this means that they had a mesorah as to the din, but not the reason.

The Dor R’vii just says the halacha remains even if we find factual errors. He does not say why, he just says it is so. R’ J.D. Bleich, IIRC, suggests it’s because the Hashgochah Elyonah caused them to pasken a certain way, and the halacha is this way because the fact that at chasimas haSha”s it was paskened this way shows that the halacha is true.

What Slifkin says, that the authority of Chaza’l must be upheld even though they were wrong, makes a mockery out of halacha.

It should be noted that the Chazon Ish writes (Kovetz Igros Vol. 1, 15) that saying Chaza’l erred in halacha or aggada is, according to our mesorah, kefirah.

Oomis, that’s correct. As to the period before that, the poskim warned that there was tremendous infestation.

VM, I didn’t think it was about gedolei haposkim being biased, ch’v.

My point was that I don’t think gedolei haposkim are shy about giving their psak, so anyone with a bikush haemes should be able to get an unbiased psak.

You actually asked two different questions, and I think Logician and I each answered a different one.

I was answering for the rabbanim. I think it’s their responsibility, and that they have the ability to, find out what the consensus of the gedolei haposkim is, and I am suggesting that they generally pasken accordingly.

Logician is taking the next step, referring to the part of your question dealing with the public. It is up to each individual to choose a competent posek who is not swayed by external factors. If an ehrlich person chooses a posek based on competence rather than how meikil the posek is, and the posek avoids being swayed by people with agendas, we should hopefully arrive at your desire, an unbiased halachic system.

With or without ketchup?

R’ Slifkin doesn’t say that the halacha is wrong. He says that Chazal may have made scientific errors (which caused them to pasken the way they did) but whatever they paskened is halachically binding.

This compromise is absolute nonsense. Practically the only one we find questioning the accuracy of Chazal’s science was the Pachad Yitzchak, and he therefore wanted to pasken differently.

If the science was wrong, then the psak should change.

As I’ve posted before, I strongly believe that Chazal’s stated facts were correct, even when not in consonance with current scientific belief.

Slifkin brings a few “sources” for his contention that the halacha would remain the same, even were Chazal’s facts ch’v wrong, based on the notion that the importance of the authority of Chaza’l would supercede even an issur d’oraiso. This is impossible, and he misreads his “sources”.

Charlie, I would think that most people reading this are more interested in small scale copying, which is pretty much entirely on the honor system.

I don’t learn gemara. My husband told me this story.

This story is in the Gemara.

Nishtdayngesheft, I try to make my points in a more respectful and subtle manner (although I’m not always successful). I don’t think anyone’s going to hear my arguments any better if I insult people.

Why is there such a need to prove that Chazal knew EVERYTHING? I don’t get that….did Chazal know a cure for cancer? Yes or no.

Straw man argument. Is anyone claiming Chaza’l knew everything? The only thing being claimed is that the definitive statements found in the gemara are indeed correct.

You have to put a “-” to replace the space.

ROB, I don’t understand. I asked you to kindly check with the kashrus agencies, but you only offered to look at a strawberry with a magnifying glass. There’s a reason I didn’t ask you to merely look at a strawberry with a magnifying glass; your findings won’t prove anything either way. How can you compare looking at one solitary berry, or even box of berries, to the findings of the kashrus agencies whose mashgichim have literally checked thousands upon thousands of large batches of strawberries? I don’t even think a layman looking at a strawberry with a magnifying glass will know what to look for, or be able to find the thrips hiding between the skin and the seeds. Gavra asked me to break open a batch of berries on a black garbage can, even after washing it with the recommended method, and I’ll see all the white bugs which the washing with detergent didn’t get. I’ll tell you why I haven’t done it yet (although I still might, out of curiosity); because my solitary experiment can’t prove anything. So instead, I confirmed with a vegetable expert in the kashrus field that this indeed might happen. His experience, together with that of all the mashgiachim who have worked under him, is a worth a lot more than my lone experiment would.

Des the level of infestation after this cleansing remain a miut hamotzui? Apparently bit, according to at least three national hechsherim (see below).

So if you want to call people who are choshesh for a miut hamotzui outlandish, I and maybe even Gavra will proudly wear that label.

Here’s from the OK:

Strawberries: Please note: Strawberries with holes should not be used! 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cut off green stems. Wash, soak and rub each strawberry in soap or veggie wash solution for 3 minutes. (Maximum 25 strawberries at a time). Dump out the water, rinse the strawberries. Wash, soak and rub the strawberries once more for 3 minutes. Rinse the strawberries. Check 3 samples.

That’s why I didn’t answer you. You should be asking your rov about which hotlines/websites are reliable, you shouldn’t be asking some anonymous person on the internet.

One of them is not the CR, so there’s no point in posting that information here.