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Hello.
There is a great deal to elaborate on regarding apprenticeship with Torah scholars. Here I will try to explain my view briefly.
First, the essence of the matter: Torah study consists of two things: (a) knowledge of the details and the rules; (b) methods of analysis and halakhic ruling. Apprenticeship with Torah scholars is concerned solely with learning the methods of ruling and acquiring good, sound intuitions, and not with learning the details of Jewish law (which today are found in books. That is why the Rema wrote that nowadays there is no law of a primary rabbi).
Conclusion: when you hear a rabbi issue some halakhic ruling, all that is involved is guidance for you as to how to analyze and how to think. In essence, you are not supposed to hear from him what the Jewish law is, but how one arrives at it. What is incumbent upon you now is to formulate your own position while making use of what he said. That is the real apprenticeship. To accept his words as they are (as is) is not apprenticeship with Torah scholars but merely monkey-like behavior. You are using your rabbi as a book, and even a book should not be used that way.
An additional conclusion: if your rabbi, whom you chose to study with, says one thing, but there are other views, you cannot protest against them unless you too have formed your own opinion in that direction. There are no protests in the name of other people’s views. They have their rabbi and their own opinion. If it is your own opinion, you can protest because in your view there is an error here. So too your rabbi, of course, because he has an opinion of his own. But to protest in the name of the opinion you heard from your rabbi is merely the act of a sanctimonious monkey. Is it their fault that you chose to study with him? Does everyone have to study with him and accept his view? By the same logic, you could protest against Yemenite Jews for following Maimonides because you heard from your rabbis or your community that one rules in accordance with the Shulchan Arukh. Or protest against Sephardim who rule in accordance with the Shulchan Arukh because your rabbi rules in accordance with the Rema. That is foolishness, isn’t it? Do you think that is apprenticeship with Torah scholars? It is the opposite of apprenticeship with Torah scholars, because it means you did not learn from them how to study and rule, so what kind of apprenticeship did you do? And all this is of course true even if apprenticeship with Torah scholars meant accepting your rabbi’s opinion as is, which is itself a mistake, as explained above.
I had a rabbi (a Lithuanian Haredi from Bnei Brak) with whom today I disagree on almost everything. But from the outset he related to me in the proper way; that is, he did not give me instructions and rulings but taught me how to think and analyze. He taught me what apprenticeship with Torah scholars means, although I assume that if you asked him, he would tell you to obey your rabbi as is. After all, he is a Lithuanian Haredi. I am grateful to him for his attitude and for the way he chose to conduct himself with me. If only all rabbis would act this way toward their students and allow them to apprentice themselves to Torah scholars rather than copy their words like monkeys. In general, the rabbi’s role is to help the student grow into a person who is independently formed and whole, not to replicate himself (=the rabbi). That is real apprenticeship with Torah scholars. And whoever thinks otherwise, I hereby protest against him.