Reply To: About the RCA, I do shudder.

In very simple language, “milei d’alma” means matters that do not appear in the shulchan aruch and that any opinion thereof is “subject” to the person’s feelings and opinions,rather than hard facts in halacha.

So you think that anything which does not appear in the shulchan aruch is subject to the person’s feelings and opinions.

Ok, I certainly disagree with that, and certainly my opinion is not a new idea. I haven’t the slightest idea why you think that anything the mechaber did not write about is therefore subject to a person’s own feelings and opinions.

It doesn’t even make any sense. If you concede that it is something that the Torah wants you to act a certain way, then why would your own opinions be relevant?