rabbiofberlin, Charliehall –
Thank you for your support. I appreciate it very much.
Popa-
It seems to me to be infected by the very things that mdd accuses.
I am not going to take issue right now with that generalization. Let me just say that I do think in some cases you might be right, but it depends on the posek/rabbi, and personally I think one could say the same thing for some ‘ultra-yeshivish’ rabbanim, (though of course to the opposite extreme) so I think it is not really fair to generalize like that.
However, ???? that that’s the way it is, like mdd describes; for arguments sake. I am bothered by the fact that he simply discredited everything I wrote without even reading it. I did not find an obscure rishon to rely on. I used standard sources and a regular approach to analyzing the sugya (by regular I mean that I am sure none of my rabbeim in the Mir, Ner Israel, or Lakewood would say I’m being ????? anything, and my much-more-“normal”-than-me chavrusas were also ???? to what I said), yet I get dismissed with a flip of the hand at best, because apparently I have an agenda.
I guess I am appealing to you because with all due respect to others on this site, I think you know better than most here, how to properly learn a sugya and pasken a shaila. So if you happen to have the time to read my lange drosho, let me know what you think.