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Since the rov that says that the parah adumah was not a treifah was already relied upon for other matters, a status of certainty should be assumed. Thus this case cannot serve as a source that a rov is stronger than a chazakah, for in this scenario the rov is not an ordinary rov. It is an already relied upon rov that assumes a status of certainty. Perhaps a general rov would not trump a chazakah.

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Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
Rabbi Fuchs learned in Yeshivas Toras Moshe, where he became a close talmid of Rav Michel Shurkin, shlit”a. While he was there he received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlit”a. He then learned in Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and became a close talmid of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, zt”l. Rabbi Fuchs received semicha from the Mirrer Yeshiva as well. After Rav Shmuel’s petira Rabbi Fuchs learned in Bais Hatalmud Kollel for six years. He is currently a Shoel Umaishiv in Yeshivas Beis Meir in Lakewood, and a Torah editor and weekly columnist at The Jewish Press.