Can Rabbis Be Wrong?
Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb
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I Deserve to Lose My Mill
The Talmud says that the small should listen to the great. Rabbi Shua recognized his authority and did what he said, writes Yossi Mekelberg. But if you don't do it because you don't trust your Rabbi's words as authoritative, "you're violating the authority that your Rabbi has" He asks: Are rabbis fallible? Can't they make mistakes individually, collectively? And if they are wrong, why shouldn't we follow them?
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