Commentary for Ketubot 41:12

א"ל ההוא שטרא דיתמי הוה וחש שמואל לב"ד טועין וסבר שמואל דלמא איכא דסבירא ליה הלכה כרבי מחבירו ולא מחביריו ובהא אפילו מחביריו סבר אעביד רווחא כי היכי דלא מפסדי יתמי

He said to him: That deed belonged to orphans, and Shmuel was concerned of an errant court, and Shmuel thought: Lest there be someone who held that the halakhah is [generally] according to Rebbe against one fellow-scholar, and not against many of his fellow-scholars but [that] in this [the halakhah is according to Rebbe] even against many of his fellow-scholars, I will leave some room, so that the orphans should not suffer any loss.

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