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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Why mandatory? It is an historical
assessment and as such open to criticism.<br>
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OK so if you say that the historical assessment of gedolim can't
be criticized, than yes, it is mandatory. But why should I have
to accept the CI's opinion on history any more than I have to
accept his opinion on medicine or engineering or etc? So you're
left right where you started.<br>
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Ben <br>
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On 6/21/2013 1:36 AM, saul newman wrote:<br>
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In an important letter, the Chazon Ish famously observed that
the division of the Torah into two separate parts – one having
to do with </span><em
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ve’heter</em><span
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the other to do with guidance in other areas of life – with
the determination of the </span><em
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hador</em><span
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only in the first section, is the ancient system of German
Reform that led to the near total assimilation of German Jewry</span>
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the conception of the CI mandatory?</span><br>
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