[Avodah] birchat kohanim - tenai based on which shitah is right

[Jacob Trachtman via Avodah]

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>  On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 12:50:31 -0400: Micha Berger wrote:
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> So have them say it al tenai. If the kehunah of a typical kohein today is
> really a safeiq, then one would either be saying BK (withough a berakhah)
> or pesuqim, depending on the tenai.
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> Along simiar lines... One shouldn't say Hallel on stam any day, which
> is why RYBS didn't say Hallel on Yom haAtzma'ut. Some take a middle
> road and say Hallel without a berakhah.
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> Seems pretty similar, using a tenai to say "if it's inappropriate, I am
> 'just' saying pesuqim" to allow one to navigate a safeiq between an asei
> and a lav.
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> I know the poskim use tenaim like that sometimes but I don't understand
how it works. What is the objective reality that decides the tenai? Since
the Torah is *lo bashamayim *is there an objectively right answer (e.g. as
to whether it is appropriate to say hallel) or is the right answer based on
the hachraah of a posek?


~Yaakov Trachtman
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