Truth Over Victory

In his letters to other dayanim, Rav Avrohom urged them again and again to love and respect one another and to seek truth rather than victory, and he wrote that he followed this path in imitation of his father. If even the youngest student were to criticize him and prove him wrong, he said, he would accept it and admit his mistake, as Chazal say to always admit the truth. This is why dayanim are called men of truth and sincerity.