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June 25, 2012 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm
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gavra_at_work
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You’re ignoring Rav Shlomo Zalman (????? ????, ???? ????? ?”?, ?’ ?”?) quoted above who says that we follow the doctors of our times even when the opinion of the Rambam is otherwise.
Yup. I’m looking for a heter, just like all the other Yeshiva guys.
Even though the Rambam was talking about Yidden, we don’t say the doctors opinion only applies to goyim.
Famous Chasam Sofer with # of teeth disagrees. Rav Chaim is well known to have agreed with this shitta, as he also says Goyim have a different physiology than Yidden re: number of teeth.
(Poe’s)