[Avodah] Qinyan on Shabbath?

[Jay F Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that harveybenton at yahoo.com would write on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:13:48 -0700 (PDT):

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> Subject: [Avodah] Kinyan on Shabbas??
> To: "avodah at lists.aishdas.org" <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
> Cc: "adrenaldoctor at gmail.com" <adrenaldoctor at gmail.com>,
> 	"ask at asktheRabbi.org" <ask at asktheRabbi.org>,
> 	"simchabart at sbcglobal.net" <simchabart at sbcglobal.net>,
> 	"saul.z.newman at kp.org" <saul.z.newman at kp.org>
> 
> All agree that Har Sinai occurred on Shabbas (whether on 6 or 7 of
> Sivan).  Can one make a valid Kinyan on Shabbas as was done btwn.
> Bnei Yisrael and Hashem that day on Har Sinai???
> 

Of course you can make a qinyan on Shabbath, even post-Marah, and even
post-Sinai.  Qiddushin, for example, involves a qinyan; are you
forgetting the ReMA's famous teshuvah about the wedding that he
performed on a Friday night?  Now, there is a Rabbinic prohibition
against making a qinyan on Shabbath, barring exceptional
circumstances, but that does not mean that a qinyan would be
ineffective, if performed in defiance of the Rabbis.  Anyway, there
were no Rabbinic prohibitions at the time of Mattan Torah.


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