My Rov Zecher Tzaddik L’vrocha. He wrote numerous sifrei halacha, and as I have stated, I know for a fact that Rav Moshe Feinstein Z”TL personally called him when he had his own shailaos. He was the rov of my shul growing up and he was niftar when I was already an adult. But he never lost his halachic perception and acuity until the day he died. I once came to him with a personal shailah after I had miscarried, and was certain he would tell me what I would have paskened on myself (which is why it is always imperative to ask a shailah of your LOR), which was a very machmir view. To my great surprise, his p’sak was a very straightforward and easy one. When I expressed my surprise and actually told him I thought the answer would have been a chumrah, his reply to me was very telling. He said, “Anybody can be machmir and say “assur.” It takes real Torah learning to know when something is muttar.”
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