[somejew to yb]
in closing, I would point you to learn Vayoel Moshe and realize that in the Torah world – meaning in accepted Torah publications – there is no one cholek on his explanations of the sources he brings there
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this argument you mentioned already – or someone else of your allies like katan or ujm.
apparently , it goes as follows : because there supposedly are no refutations published to vayoel moshe, the halacha stays like him.
this is, however, a total fallacy .
you for sure know and heard about the radziner rebbi , the ba’al hatchelet , who claimed he rediscovered the original hilazon .
he wrote about it, publicized his findings and promoted the use of this techelet dye.
he was known as a formidable talmid haham and tsadiq
no publication was to my knowledge ever published refuting his claims
according to your reasoning , his discovery remains halacha psuka for klal yisrael.
is anyone accepting such a claim ???
the fact is and remains that klal yisrael ,without publicizing refutations , rejected his shita.
he was and remains a formidable t’ch and tsadiq
but his shita was and still is rejected
satmar rave is no different
the whole world read his vayoel moshe
all talmidei hahamim and rabanim read it
and did not accept his claims
so is this considered as ‘accepted halacha’ ?
definitely not.
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