[Avodah] Minhag Yisroel and Gra on 2 Matzos vs.3 Matzos

[Arie Folger]

On Monday, 22. October 2007 18.01:14 Rich, Joel wrote:
> OK try this one - 1 shoel has an issue.  If he takes it to R' X  he gets
> one response based on R' X's struggle.  If he takes it to R' 2X he gets
> a different response based on R' 2x's struggle.  Is it your contention
> that either result is the most fully appropriate dvar hashem for the
> shoel (implication - HKB"H really doesn't have an opinion on the
> eventual act, just the process)

No. It is my contention that it is inappropriate to go shopping, particularly 
after having asked R' X. By going around from posseq to posseq, the shoel 
might be failing to fulfill his duty. When he approached the first posseq, he 
was in effect in the process G"d wants him to go through (assuming the posseq 
isn't obviously wrong). Furthermore, assuming the likely situation whereby 
one posseq knows the shoel better than the other one, for example, the shoel 
will, by shopping around, possibly fail to get the pessaq appropriate for 
him.

Somehow, the more I look into this, the more that I become convinced of how 
grave the lack of a rebbi talmid relationship is.

BTW, I do not know how important it is to ask what HKBH's opinion is. He 
already taught us in His Torah lo bashamayim hi, and in the case of tanur 
shel achnai we learn that there may be a difference kaveyakhol, between 
earthly halakhah pessuqah and G"d's "intent".
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Arie Folger
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