[Avodah] MB vs AH

Eli Turkel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Fri May 29 05:52:06 PDT 2015


Indeed in Europe before WWII the MB was not the "final" arbiter of
halacha. Much changed when CI wrote in a letter that the MB has the
halacha of a sanhedrin and one can't disagree with its conclusions.

Of course CI himself disagreed with the MB and in fact there are published
versions of the MB which include the disagreements of the CI.

All to show that what is written in letters is not to be taken very
literally. In any case that paid a large part of the change in attitude
towards the MB. Certainly poskim of the previous generation who grew up
before the war also did not take the MB as a final posek. As an example
is RMF though I heard similar things from RYBS.

-- 
Eli Turkel



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