<div dir="ltr">R' Liron Kopinsky asked if one can rely on a shaila asked by another, or if "<span style>you </span><span style>always need to find out how your particular LOR paskens."</span><div><span style><br>
</span></div><div><span style>I have heard the assertion made that one needs to pick one rav and follow him in everything, but I'm not sure what the source for that is. When I moved into our current community (RLK and I are neighbors), I adopted our LOR as my posek, meaning that I ask him any new questions that I have. However, coming in with longstanding practices in many areas that are subject to dispute -- some from family tradition, some from my own sevara, and some from pesakim previously received from other rabbanim -- I did not feel obligated to reevaluate all of those practices and make sure that they match the positions of my new LOR. (I am referring to things done in private; obviously, one should not go against known positions of the mara d'asra in public.)</span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>That being said, if there is a question where you know that different rabbanim have different opinions, and you want to know which position you should follow, then I don't see much relevance to the fact that a friend received a pesak from a rav with whom you have no connection. That data point simply tells us that there exist rabbanim who pasken that way, which we already knew. If you want a pesak, then the only relevant information is what your posek holds on the matter. On the other hand, if you were told the *reason* for the pesak of your friend's rav, and are confident that this information makes you knowledgeable enough about the topic that you are now competent to decide for yourself based on sevara without asking a shaila, then that's a different story.</span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>-- D.C.</span></div></div>