[Avodah] Should Rabbis Pasken Halachah or Teach Halachahl

[Richard Wolpoe]

>
> The Humility to DeferIn general, *psak halacha* is exclusively reserved
> for *talmidim she'higi'u l'hora'a*, great torah sages. *Chazal*unequivocally condemn those who are not qualified to
> *pasken*, and yet do so. "
>

See  the rest of R Meiri Twersky's artcile

http://www.torahweb.org/torah/2004/parsha/rtwe_shmini.html

I recently dealt with a Ri Migash who recommended using secondary sources
for rabbis.  upon further analysis the Ri Migash did not do this hismelf.
The upshot iwas:  Gret Rabbis [those wiith gravitas should go to original
sources] lesser rabbis are better off using secondary sources.

As I pointed out once in antore discussion of women yo'atzot: Any women can
"quote" halacha as written inthe codes such as Shlchan Aruch or MB.  A women
does not ned to be a posiek to  CITE a source.

However to give hor'ah on  a given issue requires MORE than quoting.

Bottom line: should MOST rabbis today be morim be'hora'a using origian l
sources, or given the reality of time constraints should rabbis self-limt to
quoting or teaching Halachic sources and relying upon full-time poskim and
Dayyanim to make serious or difficult Halachic decisions.

This is analogous to the hierarchy or sarei alaphim v'sarei mei'os. Taht
only those at the top have the gravitas to render difficult p'sak.



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