[Avodah] Dancing on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:30:24AM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
: Which of course means the baalei mesorah have tremendous flexibility
: (hat tip- R'YBS).  The cognitive dissonance comes when the answer is
: "sorry, my hands are tied" rather than "here's why I don't think the
: ratzon haborei is served"

Some flexibility. There are times when hands are tied. Tricky questions
tend to be more in the fuzzy area of "this is why it would be wrong to
let this pro outweigh that con".

: Secondary question then - why would we necessarily feel that
: intellectual acuity is the best barometer of divining the ratzon
: haborei?

I don't know if it's directly about brilliance as much as submersion
in the topic, an ability to identify the all relevent factors to weigh
(which is an issue of acuity) AND then one has what to work with for
yir'as Hashem to be of use. Having the right motives is useless if you
don't have a clear understanding of the problem.

BTW, pesaq doesn't always go to the most brilliant. When was the last
time you heard that we pasqened like the Rogotchover on something? Not
that I would sayu there the issue was a lack of yir'as Shamayim as much
as a lack of contact with nispasheit bekhol Yisrael.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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