[Avodah] Differences between Charedism and Modern Orthodoxy

Rich, Joel JRich at sibson.com
Wed Jul 30 14:35:21 PDT 2008



And WRT general advice: R' Dovid Cohen, certainly not MO, does not
believe that "the gedolim" have any guarantee of getting answers right.
Rather, he shows that without a melekh, some of the authority of
melukhah fell to the rabbanim. So RDC still says that we need to turn to
gedolei Torah to run a community but because of authority, not accuracy.
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I've heard R'HS say something similar but what is the source? R' Koo
says that the authority of the melech goes back to the Am, which is
consistent with Hkb"h's lack of trust of the individual  (this is the
reason given by R' YBS for the split of powers between sanhedrin and
melech) 

KT
Joel Rich 
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