[Avodah] submission to an authority

[David Riceman via Avodah]

RSN:

<<is it or is it not a tenet of Orthodoxy that to be defined as O one 
must submit to some defined human authority?>>

RMB:

<< In the realm of halakhah, I think so -- asei lekha rav. And this 
holds for your rav as well.>>

There's a difference between deference and submission.  One has to 
consider carefully before disagreeing with one's rebbe, but there's no 
prohibition.  Witness the many cases in Hazal and rishonim where it 
happens, e.g., H. Shehita 11:10.

David Riceman