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<font size=3>At 08:52 PM 12/16/2008, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">One can decide whether TIDE is
or is not Horaas Shaah without reading a fair amount of RSRH's writings
by knowing lots and lots of Shas, Rishonim, Acharonim, Poskim, Baalei
Mussar and Baalei Machshavah. I daresay that both RSRH and RBBL were well
qualified in that regard, and their disagreement (if, indeed, RSRH did
not mean TIDE as HS) is a manifestation of Shivim Panim, rather than, CV,
RBBL's implied ignorance/carelessness.</font></blockquote><br>
A person's pesak is based on the information the poseik has at hand at
the time that he decides something. If a gadol is given incomplete or
incorrect information, then one might expect that his pesak would be
influenced by this.<br><br>
I recall someone telling me that some of things that Reb Moshe decided
about medical issues were based on incorrect of incomplete medical
information that he obtained from others. I do not recall what the issues
were anymore, nor am I asserting the Reb Moshe was "wrong."
Still, unless one has accurate and complete information, then one can get
an incorrect or incomplete picture. After all, don't we find that poskim
disagree with each other at times based on the fact that someone who
deals with an issue later says that the other poseik was not aware of
this or that. Is not the fact that some paskened that one could turn on
lights on Yom Tov an example of this. <br><br>
I am not implying "ignorance/carelessness" on the part of RBBL.
I am saying that he must have decided based upon what he knew about TIDE
and thought that what he knew was accurate. This may well have been the
case. On the other, without being familiar with much of RSRH's writings,
it is difficult for <b><u>me</u></b> to understand how one can render a
correct evaluation of TIDE. <br><br>
YL<br><br>
PS. I do not understand the attitude that I think you and others
have that if one asks a question about something that a gadol did that
one is immediately implying that he made a mistake, was ignorant,
careless or whatever. Cannot one ask in order to understand.<br><br>
I used to ask Rav S. Schwab sheilos. If I did not understand
something, I would ask him to explain things. He would do this patiently.
He never took the approach that I was challenging him or felt that he was
wrong. Indeed, this is why I called him, because I knew that he would
patiently explain things to me, not push me off with "You have heard
my pesak, that is it."<br><br>
When I lived in Elizabeth, NJ I recall at least one instance in which I
asked Rav P. M. Teitz something. He gave me an answer and I then asked
him a question about his reply. His face lit up at my question and he
then proceeded to elaborate on his original response. He didn't dismiss
me with "How dare you question what I told you!"<br><br>
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