Yosef Karo

“ Nevertheless, one cannot be lenient on a matter that most of the Jewish people are stringent about unless he has a tradition from his teachers not to practice this stringency. If it is impossible to retract, such as where the party that took the money inappropriately is now overseas, the party was strong, the judge made something that was pure, impure or he ruled that something kosher was not kosher and it was fed to the dogs or anything similar, the judge is not obligated to pay. ”

“ Paragraph 3- If the judge who erred was an expert who did not receive permission and was not accepted by the parties or if the judge was not an expert and was accepted by the parties, and he erred on a judgement call, and he physically transferred the item, what’s done is done and he must pay out of pocket. If he did not physically transfer the item, the ruling is retracted. If it is impossible to retract, he must pay out of pocket. ”

“ If another scholar comes and prohibits that which they allowed, they should be stringent. Any situation where the earlier opinions are documented and well-known and the later poskim disagree with them, as we sometimes find the poskim arguing with the geonim, we follow the later ones because the law is always like the later ones from the time of Abaye and onward. ”