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Avram in MD
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Veltz Meshugener,

My question is similar to Logician’s:

Therefore one asks his posek, and doesn’t care what “most” people are doing. What’s the issue ?

If I have a halachic question or situation where there are differences of opinion, I ask my rav a shaila. He takes my whole situation into account and gives me a p’sak.

One thing that I learned after becoming frum (and this may be unique to my own situation and rav) is that it is better when asking a shaila to be very specific about the particular situation prompting the shaila with a goal to get a p’sak just for that situation, rather than phrasing the question in broad terms to seek a general ruling. That way, the answer I receive is tailored exactly to my situation, “bias” free. If I then feel that I need a more general answer to address future instances, I follow up by asking something like, “and if this happens again, what should I do?”