<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:28 AM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>Alternatively, what if you want to follow a particular shita which is contrary to "your received chain of precedent", not because of your general respect for this author, but because his logic and argument is stronger than the opposition?<br>
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Akiva Miller</blockquote></div><br>I have some friends who would like to see the Halacha ALWAYS follow the most logical read. The problem is: What do you mean by most logical? Logical by conclusion? Or Logically what the original author intended? etc.<br>
<br>Also such an eclectic system would create a hodge podge which I would bet would inevitably lead to contradictions. Then again, I subscribe to a consensus model which often does the same thing anyway.<br><br clear="all">
The problem with minhag avos - minhag hamakom is the large-scale disruption of the communities since 1930's. It is hard to put the pieces back together.<br><br>BY and KSA engineered a virtual BD<br>You could also engineer a set of poskim to create a gestalt - as I spoosed earlier viz.<br>
Tur/SA/Levush, etc. IOW yo udon't pasken like any combination but you form an informed opinion by surveying a set set of sources. IOW you always look at A, B, & C and then reflect.<br><br>If you look at e.g. Ba'eir Hetev, he wil mention one of many poskim and it would be hard-pressed to see a system evolving out of another eclectic basis. <br>
<br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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