Reply To: Daas Torah in gemora

Avira > It’s mainly chasidim who approach tzadikim for advice in business, and the baal hatanya was against this, because money is totally bidei shomayim.
Daas Torah is seeking the Torah’s guidance in life decisions …

This may not be the only position, I think. I see 2 issues here
(1) specificity – you somehow separate a decision on what job to take v. stock to pick
(2) logic – are you asking for a binary output, outsourcing decision-making, or are you asking for information that you can process and use in your decision-making.

Take, for example, IM CM 2:18, where R Moshe refers to his position to not let kollel members to smoke into faces of other members as “daas Torah” and “clear halakha”. First, it is a very specific issue, 2nd, he lists his arguments – geroma b’nezikin, even if the other is instanis, and even if one smoker is insignificant in the total.