[Avodah] daas torah

[Eli Turkel]

<<In contrast in the case of abortion the Tzitz Eliezar was saying - after
clearly examining the written sources - it was clear that abortion in
certain circumstances was not murder and that one can not alter the
sources to fit one's preconceived understanding.  Rav Moshe Feinstein
felt that it was intuitively obvious [from his daas Torah] that abortion
is murder and therefore he had every right to alter the text of Tosfos
because obviously evidence to the contrary had to be the result of
corrupted texts.>>

while not being on RMF level it sounds very dangerous to alter texts without
some manuscript as a basis.  Another famous case is when R. Yehuda hachasid
seems to imply that some parts of the Torah were written after Moshe
rabbenu.
RMF also assumes it must be a corrupted text as it goes against daas torah.

The problem is that experts have confirmed the authenticity of the text.
Daas torah
is based on what has passed through Jewish history. Since Rambam "won" this
fight
Daas Torah would indicate that no other opinion could exist. Similarly Daas
Torah
would reject that any major opinion held of anthromorphist descriptions of
G-d.

The problem with Daas Torah is that it does not account for opinions that
were held
by many in the past but that have been rejected in the course of the ages.
Hence,
to use Daas torah to change old texts I find a very dangerous road.

-- 
Eli Turkel
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