Reply To: About the RCA, I do shudder.

popa- At this stage, I have no idea what you mean. As I said, many things are covered by shulchan aruch. Many are not. In the latter case, you may feel that you have to act in a certain way and that is fine. But this is not halacha, it is hashkofo and is not binding.

So the code word is hashkafa now? And the definition is anything which Rav Yosef Karo didn’t put in the shulchan aruch? So the halachos of ????? are hashkafa and are not binding? I guess that explains why many of you are so comfortable with heter mechira.

You aren’t saying very good. I’m not sure I believe you actually have a consistent and sensical division between what you consider voluntary and what you consider binding; and I’m pretty sure that even if it was internally consistent that I would consider it apikorsus.

My division is that there are things where the Torah expects you to act a certain way and things where the Torah does not care what you do. Regarding the things that the Torah expects you to act a certain way, it is appropriate to take advice from the experts in that field (Torah).