<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><<OTOH, pasqening for oneself has a major problem that one doesn't face when</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">answering others' questions -- vested interest vs objectivity. >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I understand the concern. However, there is no halacha that a rabbi can't pasken on his own chicken.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">In fact in real life we all pasken for ourselves on some level. Anytime one has a shabbat question</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">\he can't always run to the LOR. One usually ends up paskeningĀ based on whatever knowledge</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">and mesorah one has. This is what makes the life of a Baal Teshuva very difficult.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Certainly what RMA and many others are against is running to the LOR or even gadol hador</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">with every question.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I have heard complaints from shul rabbis that some congregants come with questions they couldĀ </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">easily look upo themselves but prefer to ask the rabbi so that the rabbi notes how serious they are.<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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