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<font size=3>At 06:31 AM 5/11/2015, R. Joel Rich wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I wonder if this write up is
indicative of a trend seen in "The halachos of X" works,
likutim which seem to have become more popular (did they exist 40 years
ago?). As Rav Aharon Lichtenstein learned at Harvard, life is complex. Of
course there are overarching priorities which need to be learned, but
specific applications are hard to summarize in an algorithmic form (see
hilchot lashon hara and tzedaka for some obvious examples). Maybe in an
internet age we have no choice but to try to put everything on line but
what you really need IMHO is a live mentor.</blockquote><br>
Did R. Aharon Lichtenstein really not know that life is complex
before he went to Harvard? I am very sure that a man as intelligent
as he was knew that life was complex long before he went to
Harvard.<br><br>
I never went to Harvard, but I knew by 12 or 13 years old that life in
indeed complex.<br><br>
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