[Avodah] slippery slope

[Eli Turkel]

<<However, the KY is clear that it is appropriate for a poseiq to not only
take into account the halachic merits of an issue, but also the question
of where it would lead. It's not always dismissable as "politics".>>

Agreed that a posek can take a larger view of the question. However, the
result is that different poskim from different communities come up
with different answers
i.e was is an appropriate psak for meah shearim is not for Raanana
(where I live) or
for NewYork.
Thus a woman reading a ketuba might be inappropriate in communities
where women do not
appear in public but is perfectly legitimate in a community where
women frequently
give public speeches in many different forums.
This of course leads to the existence of "many torot" which lo
titgogedu was supposed to
eliminate.

BTW we once had a discussion of a automatic psak computer. Such a
computer of course could
not account for such extra-halachic issues

-- 
Eli Turkel