[Avodah] Just what ARE the rules of p'sak anyway?

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 11/5/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
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> Let's put it back in the Maharal's terms.
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> Someone who changes the weights to find a desired result is no longer
> simplifying an Infinite Truth to fit it into this universe. Different
> shadows of the same object are each valid. But if you trace the shadow
> while changing the direction of the lighting mid-stream, you are left
> with a picture something that isn't a shadow of the original. The
> weighting can't simply be to justify the result; and in that sense
> even including human cost is different than ends-driven decision
> making.
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> The weighting system, the angle of the light, is the a priori -- and
> must itself be a product of the halakhos of making halakhah.
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> SheTir'u baTov!
> -micha
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> --
> Micha Berger


And the aforementioned Rabbi ABC posits that:

Since  Behag and Tosafos areby using a Tosefta against an n explict Bavli to
remove the right of women to read Megillah on bahalf of men, is distortiion
the weights and is in efffect - if not in intention - promoting a
misogynistic agenda!

IOW - why use Davka THIS Tosefta to overrule THIS Bavli unless one has an
inner prejudice that cause a special selectivity to take place?


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