<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><h1><font size="4">The Humility to Defer</font></h1><font face="Arial" size="4">In general, <i>
psak halacha</i> is exclusively reserved for <i>talmidim
she'higi'u l'hora'a</i>, great torah sages. <i>Chazal</i> unequivocally condemn
those who are not qualified to <i>pasken</i>, and yet do so. "</font><br></blockquote><br>See the rest of R Meiri Twersky's artcile<br><br><a href="http://www.torahweb.org/torah/2004/parsha/rtwe_shmini.html">http://www.torahweb.org/torah/2004/parsha/rtwe_shmini.html
</a><br clear="all"><br>I recently dealt with a Ri Migash who recommended using secondary sources for rabbis. upon further analysis the Ri Migash did not do this hismelf. The upshot iwas: Gret Rabbis [those wiith gravitas should go to original sources] lesser rabbis are better off using secondary sources.
<br><br>As I pointed out once in antore discussion of women yo'atzot: Any women can "quote" halacha as written inthe codes such as Shlchan Aruch or MB. A women does not ned to be a posiek to CITE a source.
<br><br>However to give hor'ah on a given issue requires MORE than quoting.<br><br>Bottom line: should MOST rabbis today be morim be'hora'a using origian l sources, or given the reality of time constraints should rabbis self-limt to quoting or teaching Halachic sources and relying upon full-time poskim and Dayyanim to make serious or difficult Halachic decisions.
<br><br>This is analogous to the hierarchy or sarei alaphim v'sarei mei'os. Taht only those at the top have the gravitas to render difficult p'sak.<br><br><br><br>-<br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">
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