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Imagine that a Halakhic Decisor (decider?) maintains a certain Halakhic position or Hashkafic belief. [I am assuming that such thing as a Hashkafic Decisor exists.] Anyway, is it imperative that s/he necessarily maintain that this position, wherever possible, would apply throughout the entire framework of Halakhah and Hashkafah, and that there could be no contradictions?

(In Yeshivish, the term used for this is "going leshitaso")

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נ"ל pashut that there is. – Hacham Gabriel May 7 '12 at 3:34
@Hacham Gabriel -- Do you mean that it seems to you that there is an imperative for a posek to remain consistent? (I'm guessing that the original poster is trying to say "posek" by using the English term Halakhic Decisor. A clarification on that, too, would be helpful. Otherwise, it looks like there are two questions here, and I can't tell which question is being commented upon.) – Shemmy May 7 '12 at 11:31
@Shemmy - How come I earn a bravo for that, but I don't earn a bravo for distinguishing between segol and tzeirei? – Adam Mosheh May 9 '12 at 7:50
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@Adam Mosheh, I would only suggest that Hacham Gabriel submit it as an answer if he were to clarify which of the two questions he is answering and that he would include a text source. – Shemmy May 9 '12 at 20:27
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Just to be clear, it is the italicized question in parentheses that constitutes an entirely different question. Maybe the original poster did not insert that, but it really does not belong in there because it is unrelated to the core question. – Shemmy May 10 '12 at 22:28
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