WHAT IS DAAT TORAH? (Part 5) Is it Halacha, Hashkafa, Required or Optional Advice? R' Alfred Cohen

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the matter is as follows as we have already written that Hashem seeded the ruling on these matters to the minds and hearts of Scholars of every generation and he commanded us to follow them thus it results that whatever they agree to one of these issues that is what MOS was commanded from the mouth of God number he says on the note on the bottom this is also the opinion of the maharal expressed in his G commentary to Rashi on the verse inim 17-11 which instructs us to follow not deviate nether either to the right or left from the teachings of our rabbis for he who commanded in the Torah about prohibited or permitted matters also commanded this do not deviate from whatever they teach you consequently if a person follows whatever they the rabbis of his generation told him to do he's acting totally with permission since that is what the Holy One commanded to follow their words in whatever they teach us and he also put in the torat not to deviate from their teachings so that even if they made mistake you are acting correctly and are fulfilling a mitvah of God see also the commentary to note8 so what does he say that let's say the rabbis of the generation that have this T that we want to um we want to agree with whatever that definition fully is and let's say it's mistaken the person that followed that 100% didn't M and he is 100% innocent whether an individual on the top made a ruling that subsequently wasn't the way he it was anticipated like we saw in our

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