[Avodah] Have you perhaps become more machmir or more meikil over time?

Prof. Levine via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Mon Feb 13 07:14:35 PST 2017


At 10:00 AM 2/13/2017, Micha Berger wrote:
>But he doesn't say anything against the notion of someone being machmir or
>meiqil on any specific question. And I am surprised so many of us would
>assume he could have -- such language is all over the posqim and shu"t.
>
>He objects to categorizing a poseiq being "a machmir" -- that the poseiq
>has an intentional inclination to be strict, or conversly, "a meiqil"
>who has an intentional bias toward leniency. Rather, a poseiq makes "an
>assessment of pros and cons [of?] different positions and then ... apply
>it in a concrete situation. Sometimes the ruling is more stringent..."
>
>The question is whether his own pesaq shows just such a general trend
>and has it changed over time. and RJDB accurately answers that the
>assumption behind the question is off.

Someone on my email list sent me the following regarding this topic.

"R. Bluth once told me that RMF used to say that he doesn't say 
chumros or kulos. He says Halacha."

YL




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