Yes, my dear readers, newsletters have now become poskim, on life and death issues!
Some idiotic newsletter in Monsey (I will not print the name of the newsletter just yet) issued an answer to the weekly question "Is threat of suicide sufficient Pikuach Nefesh to be Mechalel Shabbos?"
The brilliant answer, by the big Talmud Chochom? No, you cannot !!
The most disturbing part of the answer is that they back this asinine psak with a "Chasam Sofer" ...
Every yeshiva bocher knows that we do not pasken from any TShuvois.... but this "yukel" knows better!
I ask readers to call Hatzalah on Shabbos should something like this G-D Forbid ever happen to anybody you know and to disregard "am ratzesdeka" psakim!
Looks to me like the newsletter was just giving an academic answer, to be discussed. Every time someone quotes an opinion, do people actually take it as a Psak Halacha L'Maaseh ? Should we be so scared to voice an opinion, even backed up by the Chasam Sofer, lest we be lambasted by fearless bloggers who have an agenda ?
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiotic post! We often do pasken like "teshuvois" of accepted poskim. It goes without saying that "amratzim" that don't know how to interpret them should refrain from doing so; they would also do well to refrain from expressing opinions regarding halocha in general.....
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