[Avodah] Asking your own shailas

[Liron Kopinsky]

We recently purchased a particular dietary supplement which did not have a
hechsher on it, because my wife had spoken to another frum woman who said
that she had asked her Rav the shaila and was told that this particular
item, unflavored and pure, does not need a hechsher.

We were then informed by someone else that R" Eidlitz requires a hechsher
on this item.

My question is not really about the item at hand - we'll now do more
research and figure out what the story is with the particular product we
bought - but whether it was OK to rely on the other woman's shaila. At what
point is one allowed to say "his or her Rav says it's ok so I'm going to do
it" versus personally asking (and bothering) your Rav about every shaila
you might have? For example, if you go to someone's house on Shabbat and
you see them doing something that you think might be assur and they assure
you that they asked this exact shaila and was told that it's fine, are you
now allowed to do that as well, relying on the shaila they asked, or do you
always need to find out how your particular LOR paskens?

Kol Tuv,

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Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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