[Avodah] On the Ephod

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> My own footnote is that I believe it is on this basis that those who say
> anybody who has seen anything outside the Torah world is not fit to be
> a posek because their intuition has been affected by outside sources. Of
> course, I would argue just the opposite but that's for another time.

Since this would rule out most of Chazal, I would take it with a grain
of salt. But I would consider the converse:

*My* own footnote would be that I believe it is on this basis that Chazal
say that anybody who knows Torah intellectually but was not meshameish
talmidei chakhamim is not fit to be a posek because their intuition has
not sufficiently internalized Torah sources.

Related to this is an aphorism I came up with for a discussion here
some years back:
Chareidim believe they are playing a sport in which modernity and its
temptations are the opposing team.
Mod-O beliewve that modernity and its knowledge is the field they are
playing on.

And that would be the difference between finding it plausible (if not
actually believing) that exposure to non-Torah is inherently going to
pull one further from a Torah intuition, and believing such exposure is
something a Torah-fueled intuition would need to map theory to practice.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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