<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eli Turkel</b> <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br clear="all">. RMF answered that it is not - it is based on what is the right thing to do.<br>
<br><br>-- <br><span class="sg">Eli Turkel
</span><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">In support of this we were taught in Yeshiva that the 5th chelek of Shulchan Aruch is Sechel.<br><br>Consider the story with [Beis haLevi or was it his son R.Chaim Brisker] and the sh'eilah re: milk for 4 cossos. By reading between the lines he saw that meat was needed for that seder, too. W/O such sechel, halacha could be compromised - naval birshus haTorah perhaps?
<br><br>Lich'ora this is based upon a kind of intuition. I call it "GESTALT intution" - i.e an intuition based upon an informed persona that is steeped in the classic sources.<br><br>A total ignoramus may have intution. The question there is THAT intuition trustworthy? At best it is trustworthy for THAT individual. Intuition hat is trusted by others should be aisi a function of mastery of Torah knowledge.
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