Reply To: Daas Torah in gemora

N0, so the first issue this discussion seems to reveal that we do not have same, or clear, definitions here. This is strange. People who keep kosher are able to define what it means. Same with shabbos, each opinion is defined to a minute. So, people who follow DT (and it seems to be the majority here) are not united in what it means. That is, they might be repeating the party line “DT is good, 2 legs are bad” without actually practicing it.

One article that shocked, shocked, me was a simple YWN news story about R Edelstein emerging from a year of covid isolation and giving a shiur separated by a plastic mehitza from the listeners. Somehow, thru the year of controversy nobody mentioned, or learnt from, the gadol. And no articles about his way of learning during that year (by himself? self-isolating hevrusa? zoom? did not see anything about it). So much for DT.

PS Rav Yehuda in Chullin had his definition of DT, but nobody seems to care about it. Rav Yehuda founded yeshiva in Pumbedita, taking over from Nehardeya, and most successful and long-serving yeshiva in history – so probably Rav Yehuda knew something about DT …