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Rabbi’s authority

שו”תCategory: Meta HalachaRabbi’s authority
asked 5 years ago

Before I understood the authority of the Talmud, from below, meaning that the public felt the depth of acceptance. And also a rabbi over his community, the masks from below.
Now: It turns out that it is forbidden to disagree with a rabbi in the community?!
A. It can be said that we can disagree, because we have accepted the Rabbi only in places of doubt, and not in areas of definitive Halacha. Is there a source for this disagreement?
on. It’s forbidden. But whoever wants to share, must leave the community. What does that mean? Stop going to events? Stop receiving subsidized discounts?
What do you think?


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
Indeed, it is forbidden. This does not mean that you have to do everything he commands, as his authority is only over public behavior. I don’t think that on a private level you have to act according to his rulings. Although when it has a public implication I do (for example, if it is forbidden to own a television, it is a personal matter but it has an impact on the members of the community – whose children come to play at your place, etc.).

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לולבון replied 5 years ago

According to you, we have received the authority of the rabbi regarding matters of community character? Something like that? Do you perhaps have a source for this, or is this your simple explanation?

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

There can be no source for this because almost all the laws of Mera Da'atra are custom, inventions, and explanations. It can be explained by the place of Rabbi Yossi, where they ate chicken in milk and the like (a personal matter), but the explanation says otherwise. It seems to me that Rabbi Yossi was nearby and therefore had authority beyond the Mera Da'atra of our day. And I am afraid that people do not necessarily practice at home like the Rabbi.

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