<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RHS has a recent talk in Bet Shemesh on Daas Torah on non-halachic issues</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It is about a 1 hour shiur followed by questions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/807758/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Da-as_Torah_-_What_Are_Its_Halachic_Parameters_In_Non_Halachic_Issues" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/807758/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Da-as_Torah_-_What_Are_Its_Halachic_Parameters_In_Non_Halachic_Issues</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) His basic point is that everything should be asked of a posek including</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">who to marry.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Whom to vote for is a shaila</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">However the posek should be one "on the same wavelength" as the questioneer.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Obviously a MO Jew should not ask a Meah Shearim rav a daas torah question</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and vice-versa</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2) The posek can answer only if he knows all the facts. Just having the bot</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in the shiur is not enough and certainly to know everything about the woman</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Similarly a posek cant decide about rallies against Soviet Union without</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">consulting experts</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RYBS spent an hour talking with a professor ecpert in Soviet affairs before</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">backing SSSJ with rallies.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RYBS explains that rabbis in the holocaust made wrong decisions because it</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">was a time of hester panim and no one knew the facts. Rav Leib Mallen and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rav Zelig Epstein disagreed with Rav Chaim Ozer and ran away from Vilna.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">When asked how they could disagree they answered it was before the time of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Daas Torah -). R Chaim Ozer said that there would never be a Jewish state.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">People in the 1930s just couldnt conceive of a such an event.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3) One should ask only a posek with experience on answering questions. The</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Steipler and Rav Schach were not poskim.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If I had been at the shiur I would have asked about the halacha that one</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">doesnt need to listen to one's parents about whom to marry. IMHO even if</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the posek knows the man and woman very well no outsider can decide such a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">question. It is well known that RYBS's parents were not thrilled at his</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">choice of a wife (no yichus).</span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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