Reply To: Paskening Hashkafa: Academic vs. Practical Rationales

There is a simple proof from the Gemora, which is said over in the name of both Rav Hutner and Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky, that we pasken hashkafa: “nimnu vegamru – noach lo shelo nivrah”. “They counted and ruled” according to the majority – noach lo shelo nivrah, a purely hashkafic, non-halachic issue, ruled due to the majority count.

Someone who tries to live Halachicly without proper Hashkofos will not succeed. At best, he will be living a schizophrenic, self-contradictory Jewish life, and he will be in a constant state of spiritual disarray trying to reconcile his Halachic lifestyle with his Hashkafic deficiencies. Jewish Halachah and Secular Hashkofos are contradictory.