The display of falsity here…when will the misconception about koach dehetera stop?
Chazal do not say that it is better to be maikil or matir.
It NEVER means that. Where did this come from?? It ALWAYS, withoit exception, is used in gemara to express the strength of one tanna or amora’s shitoh. The fact that they were able to be matir shows the strength of their shitoh, because anyone can be machmir out of not knowing the halacha clearly. Only if someone knows the halacha very clearly can they allow something. Most people who use this expression simply want to be matir things because yiddishkeit is a burden for them.. nebach.
Poskim go out of their way to be maikil for…agunos, nidah shailos, kashrus shailos for poor people, cholim, the list goes on. My mesorah from rav belsky is not to look for chumros.
Anyways here’s a list of places in the gemara where the expression is used to describe the strength of the psak being made, NOT to say that being meikil is better than being strict.
Berachos 60a, eruvin 72b, bayah 2b, gitttin 41b and 74b, kidushin 60b..and one more.
Let’s bury this ignorance once and for all.