[Avodah] submission to an authority

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

I think that without a rebbe, one is disconnected from the oral Torah,
from the eitz chaim. There feels something basically Karaitic about it.

The Rambam on Avos 1:6 appears to take "asei lekha rav" as an obligation,
not as Pirqei Avos's mussar "ought"s. Perhaps mirroring my intent when
I threw the phrase in there, just for sloganeering purposes.

BTW, I found this, by R' Jonathan Ziring (whose shiurim on YUTorah.org
were recommended here by others)
<https://shaashuim.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/why-is-psak-binding>:

    ... The Gemara rules that if one Chacham forbade something,
    another Chacham is not allowed to permit it. In another place,
    the Gemara forbids one who asked a shayla from asking another
    posek. While Tosafot seems to think there is only one prohibition,
    on the Chacham, the simple understanding of the Gemara is that these
    are two prohibitions. Why is it forbidden?

    There are three main possibilities:

    1. It is a lack of respect for the first Chacham to ask a second
    one. The Ran suggests this, and adds that it also causes it to seem
    like there are two Torot.

    2. It is a form of neder you accepted either his decision, or to
    listen to whatever he said (we will return to this). This positions
    seems to be taken by Raavad.

    3. The Chacham creates a metaphysical status by poskaning that you
    are bound to. This is most clearly taken by the Ritva.

    There are many differences suggested between these....

And "For a full treatment, see the shiur and sources (here
<http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/820882>)."

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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