indeed one who wants to do anything, should certainly keep asking until one finds someone who permits it. better yet just ask the cr. someone will give a heter.
everytime I think the cr has gotten to its lowest point, I am surprised again. “
Nitpicker – One who wants to do something and asks her rov a shailah and gets a p’sak which she does not like,as often happens when we ask shailahs, is NOT allowed to keep asking until she finds a rov to give her a heter. I am frankly surprised you made such a comment. I am certain you know the halacha in this regard.
If you read my post properly, you saw I specified to ask a rov and not those of us in the CR. And if this is what you consider a low point, B”H and halevai that this WERE the biggest problem facing klal Yisroel today, especially when there is a heter.
DY – I certainly did not intend an offensive comparison, and thank you for recognizing that. The main thrust of my post was that one has a Rov for a reason, and it is not a BAD thing to find a legitimate (L E G I T I M A T E) heter for how to do something that might otherwise be thought to be assur. We have Kosher Clocks and Lamps for Shabbos. I am sure there are people who don’t use them, either. But if one MAY use such devices and there are respected rabbonim whose opinion it is that dry powdered makeup applied over clean skin is permissible, then that is the end of it. R’ Dovid Weinbergera very well-respected Rov, also permits the Shabbos makeup, as I understand it, and I believe gives his own stamp of approval to a specific line of Shabbos cosmetics, unless I am greatly mistaken. (Please correct me if I attribute this to the wrong person).
To say someone permits something because so many people do it anyway, bothers me a great deal, if intrinsically it is something that is assur to do. Would we argue that it’s ok to text message on Shabbos, because so many otherwise shomer-Shabbos teens are doing so anyway and find a heter for it (which I cannot envision)? This is actually a very big problem in many communities in recent times. If the makeup were really an issur from every standpoint, with no mitigating factors to mattir it, it would not be muttar.