On the subject of women being blessed with seven blessings during wartime

A. You make yourself a rabbi, and therefore you can choose a rabbi as you wish. The mouth that forbade is the mouth that permitted, and if you chose him, you can also choose another. B. Great question, and I wrote about it several times in my remarks about the ‘historical accident.’ But what can be done if there is no such authority? You want to invent something out of nothing because there is no other way? So who would have such authority? Maybe me? Or you? Difficulties of the kind you raise present a problem, but that doesn’t mean it has a solution. Beyond that, I don’t see the big problem either. New problems are handled by contemporary poskim, and those who have a position should establish their own. Those who don’t – should ask a rabbi. What is the problem? And aren’t there many teachings in Israel now? Are there no disputes between poskim now? Even those who imagine formal authority today, each of them gives this authority to a rabbi or another institution. Therefore, if the practical problem bothers you, what you propose is not a solution to it. In the meantime, we are surviving quite well, so apparently formal authority is not a condition for the existence of a people. On the contrary, sometimes it is what destroys its existence (see the rebellion against Rabban Gamliel in Yavneh). C. If the formal authority that existed today had legislated this – it would indeed be binding. But the assumption that this is indeed what they would do does not make it a binding law. Both because you may be wrong (they would not have determined this) and even if you are right, in practice as long as it has not been determined it is not binding. You can say that it is desirable to do this, but you cannot say that what is permitted is forbidden or obligatory. This is both a lie and a ‘don’t add anything’.