[Avodah] daas torah and voting

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:24:08AM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
: If this was daas Torah it shows that daas Torah is fallible as the
: republican won

It wasn't descriptive, it was prescriptive. Sometimes you ought to back
the loser just to make a statement that hopefully the winner will take
with him into office.

Simularly R' Dovid Cohen's formulation of daas Torah. Not that DT is
the product of siyata diShmaya and thus better at leading you to where
HQBH wants you to be. Rather that the authority of the melekh fell to
the Sanhedrin when the melukhah ended, and from the Sanhedrin to the
Rabbanim. Leshitaso, there is a chiyuv to ask the gedolim regardless of
whether it's a successful strategy. Prescriptive, not descriptive.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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