[Avodah] Intuition - sources

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, September 7, 2007 3:46 am, R Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
:> How would you describe the Satmare Rebbe's opposition to AI in this
:> model?

: To reiterate I stated that daas Torah is the intuition that results
: from immersion and mastery of Torah. It is not universal commonsense.
: Nor is there only one daas Torah. Thus gedolim can legitimately
: disagree even though all sides are relying on their daas Torah

Yes, that's how /we/ can describe the machloqes.

It's not how RMF does. By raising the issue of adulteration by
external sources, he seems to be questioning whether the SR's position
is even a shitah.

RDE seems to say RMF was only trying to dismiss the argument -- why
should we care what Catholic law is? However:
> "I thank G-d am not from them and not from the masses. All of my
> hashkofa is only from my knowledge of Torah without any contamination
> from external ideas. The Torah's  judgments are true whether they are
> harsh or lenient. The ideas from alien hashkofa or those which
> spontaneously appear in a man's heart are all of no significance - even
> if they are to be conservative and strict. It is simply a false
illusion
> to view these alien ideas as being more pure and holy..."
does seem to place the SR's position -- not just the reference -- as a
"false illusion", a product of "contamination", not eilu va'eilu.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi