<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 31, 2007 1:22 AM, <<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><br><div>When there is a machlokes in Chazal that has halachic implications, we are
not entitled to personal opinions. You can't follow Bais Shammai re
Chanuka lights, for example, just because that appeals to you. You have to
follow halachic process and ask shailos etc.</div>
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<div>But when there is a machlokes about how to understand a particular pasuk, I
don't see why we shouldn't be entitled to personal opinions. I can't
see anything wrong with saying, "This interpretation seems more plausible
to me."</div>
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<br><b>--Toby
Katz<br>=============</b></font></div></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br>When the Torah says don't eat BLOOD are we entitled so say we LIKE to eat Blood?<br><br>The Gmara says YES<br><br>Kal Vachomer if hazal PASKEN one way does not mean I have to check my brain at the door and say I like the other way beter, Hazla merely ask us to FOLLOW the psak not to "obsequiescently" agree to it.
<br><br>When I learned Gm'ara as a kid I don't recall any rebbe giving me a hard time because I preferred R.Me'ir's svra over his bar plugta even though we did NOT pasken like him! I don't recall any issur for "feeling" that the halachah would be nice if we did it differently! We are bound to a particular shita in deed, not in sevara!
<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>