Reply To: questions about the yeshivish world

1) whats the sourse of reb moshe’s heter? word of mouth? then check igros moshe orech chaim (אגרות משה – חלק ו (או”ח ח”ד siman 9 (letter to the lubavitcher rebbe btw) where he brings a gemara that you cant just pass down a heter without knowing the reason, so you need more than that.
mesorah? all depends what you consider mesorah. the baal shem tov thought to focus on certain things that were always around, you can also consider the vilosin yeshiva a change of mesorah, or the idea of kolel. or the brisker derech halimud. my point is not to question these ideas, my point is that apparently different people have different definitions of mesorah.