Reply To: R' Chaim Kanievski Women Wearing Tefillin

“Except that that’s not how halacha is supposed to work.”

Correct if you adopt a codifier’s methodology of halacha. But if you adopt a Lurian methodology then this is exactly how halacha is supposed to work – you learn through the Gemara and come up with the best pshat and take the early authorities into account but by no means be bound by them. In fact if not for the special respect that is being accorded to the Rema, you will find that his view is a minority view.

Once again though, I am not advocating women’s Tefillin.