[Avodah] paskening by Nevuah

[Lisa Liel]

On Tue, 24 May 2011 11:57:47 GMT, "kennethgmiller at juno.com" 
<kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote (v28i82m3):
>R' Micha Berger wrote that we'll follow him...
>
> > ... and because, pro forma, Eliahu haNavi has true semichah
>
>I'm not sure how relevant that is. IIRC, there were still some 
>Amoraim (maybe even Geonim?) who had True Semicha, yet they did not 
>pasken on these questions, leaving the Gemara with Tayku. Or maybe 
>they even *did* pasken, but for some reason (such as opposing 
>psakim) they were not generally accepted. Either way, if the answer 
>is based on this alone, Eliyahu is no different than the other True 
>Semicha chachamim.

Well, other than being alive.  And it's both his having real smicha 
and his having learned his Torah in a time long before machloket 
became a problem.

Lisa