[Avodah] paskening by Nevuah

[Zev Sero]

On 18/05/2011 9:00 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

> It will be totally natural, as she writes. His great age will mean that he will have had a long time to grow both in Torah and in wisdom. He will have learned *from* the gedolim of all the generations, and quite possibly even *with* the gedolim of all the generations. And the net result will be that we'll follow his psak not because of his nevuah, and not because of his charisma, and not even out of respect. But simply because he will know the answers. He will have had the opportunity to develop explanations for his views. And of course he will welcome any questions -- to which he will have all the right answers.

There's that. There's also the fact (that Chazal tell us) that there used
not to be much machlokes, because everyone knew the correct halacha, and
our current state of confusion is the result of our forgetting all that.
So Eliyahu can just tell us what he remembers from before the days of
forgetfulness.  "A kav of dates and pomegranates in a four-amah square?
My teacher Achiyah asked that very question of Moshe Rabbenu, and this
was Moshe's answer..."

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