[Avodah] RMA

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<OTOH, pasqening for oneself has a major problem that one doesn't face when
answering others' questions -- vested interest vs objectivity. >>

I understand the concern. However, there is no halacha that a rabbi can't
pasken on his own chicken.
In fact in real life we all pasken for ourselves on some level. Anytime one
has a shabbat question
\he can't always run to the LOR. One usually ends up paskening based on
whatever knowledge
and mesorah one has. This is what makes the life of a Baal Teshuva very
difficult.

Certainly what RMA and many others are against is running to the LOR or
even gadol hador
with every question.
I have heard complaints from shul rabbis that some congregants come with
questions they could
easily look upo themselves but prefer to ask the rabbi so that the rabbi
notes how serious they are.



-- 
Eli Turkel
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