[Avodah] no pesak halakha , in matters of morality,

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:31:05PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: Great quote from R'YBS in the new "Halachic Morality" essay "That is why
: there was no pesak halakhah, no authoritative halakhic ruling, in matters
: of morality, and why no controversy on moral issues was resolved by the
: masorah in accordance with the rule of the majority, in the same manner as
: all disagreements pertaining to halakhic law were terminated. For pesak
: halakhah would imply standardization of practices, a thing which would
: contradict the very essence of morality. [Me - still being debated today,
: especially what are the boundaries of acceptable halachik morality.]

Not sure what this means. There are halakhos about triage. About how
much tzedaqah to give and how to prioritize them. There are a lot of
halakhos about morality.

I fail to see how this isn't circular. The open moral questions RYBS
is referring to are those too situational for every possible situation
to be addressed with its own pesaq. Ar the Ramban puts it on "ve'asisa
hayashar vehatov". If "morality" is being used in a sense to limit it
to those quetions that did not get halachic resolution, isn't he just
saying the interpersonal questions that didn't get a pesaq didn't get
a pesaq?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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