[Avodah] Torah Only - Hora'as Sha'a

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

> a) The principle "halacha v'ayn morin keyn" is directed specifically
> at the leaders, and tells them that in certain situations it is proper
> to pasken differently than the actual halacha. To my understanding,
> this is usually for public policy reasons; there are overarching
> issues at stake, and for the sake of the larger issue, the smaller
> issue has to be fudged a bit. But this effort will be for naught
> unless the leader insists with all his might that this is indeed
> the proper path. Ideally, the followers should have no way of figuring
> out that the leaders would have preferred a different path, and chose
> this one only because of circumstances.

I don't think this is at all right.  "Halacha ve'ein morin kein" does not
mean "umorin lehipuch".  It just means one leaves this halacha out of the
shiurim and the public sermons, and when someone asks one remains silent;
it's not a heter to positively pasken something that one doesn't believe
is true.

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