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asked 4 years ago

Hello Rabbi, there is a halachic rule of doubting the rabbinate regarding the sound and doubting the rabbinate regarding the sound.
I would be happy if the rabbi could tell me what is considered a state of doubt. You have thought of three possibilities:
1. I have no knowledge of the case and its details.
2. The case was decided according to halakhic law, but I do not have the halakhic knowledge.
3. I have all the details of the case, but in order to rule on the law I need to go through many sources, which will take me a long time. But in practice I have a short time to decide what the law is.

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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago

For most poskim, if it is possible to clarify, this is not a case of doubt. Otherwise, you could not study the laws of the rabbis at all and make everything easy, and you would have completely abolished “not to deviate.” If you lack knowledge about the case, it is a doubt in reality. This is of course the normal state of doubt. If you do not have Halachic knowledge, you must study or ask. If you do not have time (not that it is difficult, but impossible), then in my opinion it is a doubt. Although some have argued that in such a situation there is no permission to leniently rabbinate because it is not a real doubt, and the ruling on this is that the rabbinate is not a rabbinate.

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