Q&A: Ruling Like Maimonides
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Ruling Like Maimonides
Question
Hello and blessings, Rabbi. I wanted to know whether nowadays it is permissible to rule like Maimonides, since people have brought proofs and reasons that this would be a mistake—to rule like Maimonides. And if I do so, then in effect that would be rejecting Maran, the Shulchan Arukh, and the other rabbis and communities that accepted the halakhic rulings of Rabbi Yosef Karo.
With blessings, thank you!
Answer
I did not understand what “permissible to rule like Maimonides” means. If that is what you think, then do so, whether it is Maimonides or Rabbi Yosef ben Mordechai Abu Ali from Kamchatka. If you do not have your own position, the custom is to follow the author of the Shulchan Arukh or the Rema.