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The Rav and the Standard: Where Psak Meets Product

How a written content standard relates to rabbinic guidance - what the product decides, what your rav decides, and why the line between them is drawn where it is.

What the standard is - and is not

FilteredTube's standard is a product boundary: one written policy determining what can appear in the catalog, applied identically for every customer. It is deliberately conservative - doubt resolves to hidden - precisely so that it can serve families across communities whose customs differ.

It is not a psak, and it does not present itself as one. Questions of individual practice - what a particular family should watch, how a community holds on recorded music in Sefira, where a specific chinuch line belongs - are questions for your rav, and nothing in the product replaces that relationship.

A floor that serves every ceiling

Because the standard is a conservative floor rather than anyone's ceiling, a rav advising a family can build on it: the catalog guarantees the floor, and the family's own guidance shapes what they choose within it. A community that holds more strictly in a given area loses nothing - hidden-by-doubt means the boundary errs in their direction.

Rabbanim who wish to engage with the standard more directly - reviewing it, raising concerns, channeling their kehilla's questions - will find the review process built to receive exactly that input. A standard for the community grows best in conversation with its leaders.

At a glance

Key takeaways

  • The standard is a product boundary, not a psak.
  • It is a conservative floor every community's guidance can build on.
  • Rabbinic engagement with the standard is welcomed by design.