DY: Thank you for your kind words :). Baruch Hashem this week is guaranteed to be better (shiva will be over…) but I appreciate the good wishes. I’m glad I didn’t come across as too hard and rude.
Okay, so I’m starting to see your point. Earlier, you made it sound like your personal opinion, but you’re 100% right- there are cases where it can seem vague. I’d just love to know what exactly was in the minds of the gedolim when they made the psak, because obviously it’s min haTorah… I’m just curious exactly what the cheshbonos were.
I see your point, but I’m still, for obvious reasons, very curious. Because it wasn’t just “ehh, let’s just asser something else for ’em.”
Because even if it’s up to the gedolim in each generation, that still doesn’t mean that they’re doing it because “it just seems right.” The point is that they come out of it from Torah and Torah is more than just a gut feeling (and if you might say that for a gadol, Torah becomes their gut feeling, then that means even more that they would bedavka be thinking of the correct Torah hashkafos and not just “status quo is awesome.”
I’ll probably never know, and even if I were to know I might not understand, but that’s basically my point.