[Avodah] Is a psak forever?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 04:59:45PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> Is a psak forever? Example- a pulpit rabbi holds a unique lenient position
> concerning grama on Shabbat. After his retirement, is every future
> congregant (and Rabbi) "bound" by that leniency? Are members of that
> congregation bound to inform visitors of their utilization of the leniency?

I don't have a formal answer to your question. I can only say that in
practice, I've seen new LORs respect the ruling of their predecessor
for the first several years.

And only once the congregation has put the previous rabbi into their
past do the rulings slowly start changing.

You also raise the perennial question of how to decide whether we are
discussing mainline vs chumerah or discussing qulah vs mainline. It would
seem like we would expect chumeros to outlast qulos, kind of like the
community were "shavya alei". But how do you know which leniencies are
"qulos" as opposed to just a lack of chumerah?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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