[Avodah] L'sheim shmayim

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

 > Ok let's accept your presumption-Who that has the authority to 
determine which changes are with in the halachic system and which 
aren't. Can I say libi omer li if I have smicha and that's good enough? 
If not , how do you draw the line?
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I can't say that I can draw a clear line. Certainly someone who passes a 
2 year  smicha program (a change, BTW) shouldn't be doing this type of 
thing. It seems that change doesn't require unanimous agreement and very 
possibly it can be done even if the greatest rabbis disagree. My example 
for this would be chassidut.  The changes that it brought were huge and 
as we all know, so was the opposition to it. Yet here were are today, 
with chassidut thought of as glatt kosher.

Ben
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Yup, as  said, the wheel is still in spin with regard to this and the other current thread Maharat/smicha. Now "everyone knows" it was obvious that Chassidus would be accepted and Conservative not (see Kahnemaan Tversky on how we all do this) Anyone who thinks these or those are simply matters of black letter law discussions (hat tip R'Micha) IMHO is fooling themselves. 
Kt
Joel rich
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