[Avodah] derech psak

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:09:19AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: Many RIETS/YU Rabbis are very machshiv Rav Asher Weiss. I'm just curious
: if you have any thoughts on his psakim being based on an approach
: which differs from the one I assume they received. I've heard him say
: in the past that he is not enamored with the tzvei dinim approach...

It wasn't too central to Rav Shimon's derekh, who was just as likely to
discuss how the two factors worked together behitztarfus. Just saying,
since Rav Dovid Lifshitz, and to some extent Rav Shimon Shkop, are
also RIETS. And that is where I learned R' Shimon's derekh. But on to
my point...

Lomdus isn't usually how pesaq is done. RARakkefetR has repeatedly pointed
out that RCBrisker wasn't the poseiq in Brisk. When he took the job of
Rav, he convince R Simcha Zelig Riger to come along. Where RSZR got the
job as Brisker dayan.

RARR opined that this is because lomdus makes it hard to pasqen. (And
his theory seems to make a lot of sense to me.) In lomdus the focus of
your learning is to see how both sides make sense. The better you are
at it, the harder it is going to be to pick sides. Brisker chumeros,
being machmir to be chosheish for all shitos, is a natural consequence.
But pasqening requires picking a favorite. And it requires giving some
level of credance to precedent, not only to how compelling one finds
the sevara.

Learning AhS was eye opening to me, to see an entirely different way
of analyzing halakhah than the lomdus of the yeshiva. AhS Yomi finishes
in the beginning of April be"H, I am very tempted to move my commute
learning to Tur - BY - SA - nosei keilim. BUT.... I haven't found
editions of the relevant books that my back could handle shlepping back
and for each workday.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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