[Avodah] [Areivim] what proportion would return to the yeshiva

[Ben Waxman]

As a followup question, do we really have rabbanim who have the din of 
the local rav today? With everyone able to get into a car and drive to 
see some gadol or write him a fax or call transatlantic, is there such a 
thing as a local rav?

Ben

On 7/20/2012 12:50 AM, Daniel M. Israel wrote:
>
> But the question I wanted to raise here is something else.  To what 
> extent is an army unit a kahilah in the sense that someone joining 
> such a unit would be obligated to accept the local mara d'asra?  Is 
> there a difference between a charedi soldier and a charedi who is 
> forced for health or parnassa reasons to move to a town where the Rav 
> ha'ir is RZ?  In general in such a case the typical response is to not 
> use the local Rav, and speak to a more charedi Rav by phone, but there 
> really is not halachic justification for this, is there?  (And I write 
> this as someone who is as guilty of it as everyone else.)
>