[Avodah] Dancing on Shabbos

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> --
> Micha Berger
>


True but [at least until the advent of the MB ]when was the last time anyone
cited the poseik's yira's Shamayyim as a reason to follow him?

JR:

> 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"
>

Stole my thunder
If  Micha's model of fuzzy is good, then feminists would have far more
resonance in claiming it is a form of misogyny for poskim to feel
constrained from solving the Aguna issue. OTOH, if you say precedent IS
BINDING, then poskim would have had an objective reason for not complyingto
Aguanh advocates all along.  That is part of my mah nafsahch, not that p'sak
is Boolean per se, but that either precedence is binding or it isn't.   If
it isn't, or even if ti is only PARTIALLY binding then then eis la'asos!
And  poskim would have more than yir'as Shamayyim impelling them to free
agunos, it would be tsa'ar ba'alei Chayyim of the highest order!



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