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

[Rich, Joel]

It is so obvious to me that there aren't really any undisputed rules
here, that I've had trouble getting a grasp of the basics of this
discussion. Another way of phrasing that would be to view my silence as
a vote for the "adding up weights" idea.



Akiva Miller

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Agree, which brings us back to my original response to R' RW's question.
IMVHO you can't say the guy is wrong on any other basis than he is not
recognized as one of the chachmei hamesora - it seems we have a self
perpetuating subjective system which allows for "votes" of indeterminate
weighting by both the poskim and the am that accepts them (e.g. R' MF's
comments on how he became the posek hador)

KT
Joel Rich
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