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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">So then the question (<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">---is
the conception of the CI mandatory?) simply becomes one of do we
have to accept that gedolim have to be consulted on non-halachik
questions.<br>
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Is it mandatory to accept this? For those who believe in some
form of daas torah, than maybe yes.<br>
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Ben<br>
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On 6/21/2013 1:32 PM, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
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type="cite">
I don't think the question was about the siefar dealing with
German R
as a cautionary tale, but on the thesis of the quote.
RJR writes that the CI mandates listening to the chakhmei hador.
(Again,
I want to see it inside; it doesn't fit my understanding of what I
did see
in the CI's writings.) Not that they're right, or more likely to
be right,
but an obligation, just like the obligation to seek out their
pesaq.
:-)BBii!
-Micha
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