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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Well, yes and no. Lo bashamayim hi
doesn't mean that everyone gets to make their own decisions. It means
that it's in the hands of man, specifically the rabbis.<br>
<br>
There are two opposite tendencies that are both very worrying, in my
opinion. On the one side, there's the idea that you have to go to a
rabbi to decide whether to have ketchup or mustard on your hotdog.
Questions that are clearly *not* halakhic, like that. There are people
who won't make life decisions at all without consulting their rav.
That's disturbing, and not at all what Judaism is about.<br>
<br>
Then there's the other side, which could be called Talmudic Karaism, or
Rishonic Karaism. It's the reduction of our Torah sources to Torah
she'bikhtav. Just because the Mishnah and Gemara were written down
doesn't mean that they are supposed to be treated as Torah
she'bikhtav. They aren't just books that we can each pick up and read
and apply our own logic to, any more than the Karaites were legitimate
in doing that to the Chumash.<br>
<br>
Lisa<br>
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On 2/12/2012 8:34 PM, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi, its Kosher! wrote:
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<p>Halacha is about sources. Lo bashamayim hi.</p>
<p>Perhaps one Jew's Shomayim is another Jew's source?</p>
<p>It may be a third Jew's sauce.</p>
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