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What Does a Posek need to know? (Part One)

Speaker:: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
Date:: February 04 2021

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Halacha:

Rules of Psak

Machshava:

Derekh haLimud, Leadership, Rabbinic Authority

Collections: R' Woolf What Does a Posek need to know?

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We discuss the spiritual and intellectual preparations before one paskens, including disciplines (aside from Shas and Poskim), with which a Rav must be familiar. (Presented at Kollel Hora'ah, Mexico City)

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What Does a Posek need to know? (Part One)

Halacha:

Rules of Psak

Machshava:

Derekh haLimud, Leadership, Rabbinic Authority

Collections: R' Woolf What Does a Posek need to know?

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What Does a Posek need to know? (Part One)

Halacha: Rules of Psak Machshava: Derekh haLimud, Leadership, Rabbinic Authority

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Halacha:

Rules of Psak

Machshava:

Derekh haLimud, Leadership, Rabbinic Authority