Questions about the lesson on Torah study
Hello Rabbi,
In the lesson on Torah study before last, I had a few questions that I wanted to ask you:
1) Regarding the determination of the peoples of the lands who are the great men of the generation, is it a correct determination, and does it have any halachic validity or halachic precedent?
2) Regarding doubt in any law in a Brisk analysis (even in the laws of the rabbis), why should it be stricter and why is it not said that doubt in the rabbis is valid?
3) Why did the Rabbi of Brisk ask Rabbi Spector not to mention his reasons regarding halachic questions? It is clear that he had some reasons that the Rabbi of Brisk could contradict, so what is the point of burying his head in the sand regarding them?
Hello Oren.
- This has no validity and is not legal.
- I didn’t understand.
- He thought he had a correct halachic intuition, even if the reasons are debatable. For example, a person can think that an alternative healer has a good intuition about what to do, without accepting their theoretical explanations (which are usually complete nonsense). This is just an example, because usually their healing method is also nonsense.
Regarding 2, I meant what you said in the lesson that sometimes in a Briskan analysis, one can present an impressive halakhic structure for each person's system, and therefore it is difficult to decide. But seemingly, why don't the Briskans decide according to the rule of doubting the rabbinic to the kollah and doubting the Torah to the khumarah? (Also in Spika Dadina)
In Sfiqa Dadina and especially in Sfiqa Darbwata, some recommend stricter rules because there is no right or wrong here (this and that). In any case, the halakhic rule is that one can be lenient, but those who want to go all out, of course, are stricter.
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