[Avodah] submission to an authority

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:21:58AM -0800, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
: is it or is it not a tenet of  Orthodoxy  that to be defined as O  one must
: submit to some defined human authority? ...

In the realm of halakhah, I think so -- asei lekha rav. And this holds
for your rav as well. Even if you're one of the great posqim and can
only consult rabbeim-chaveirim, because there is no one else to find.
You have to be able to accept someone with more skill and/or more
objectivity WRT this particular question may have the better answer,
even if in ways that elude you.

That's a far cry from expanding da'as Torah to consluting on questions
where the unknowns are in the metzi'us. E.g. Which job is better
involves knowing the industry; even to know which job would make it
easier to grow in qedushah.

And a far cry from thinking that since da'as Torah is a special mode
of reaching an answer, all TRUE gedolim would reach the same answer.

But back to the point... doesn't halakhah demand heteronomy?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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