[Avodah] Txum Shabbat

[Jay F Shachter]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 20:17:16 +0000:

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> Subject: Re: [Avodah] rishonim, yevamos 24a, ain mikreh.....
> To: harveybenton at yahoo.com, "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
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>> 5. not outside on shabbas (a la karaites).
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> 
> Don't leave your place
> Place is defined as a 2000 cubit radius.
> 

The others were correct; this is the one that is not.  The notion that
Txum Shabbat is Scriptural rather than Rabbinic is a minority opinion,
and even this minority opinion does not hold that the Scriptural txum
is 2000 cubits, but, rather, that it is much larger, and was
subsequently reduced to 2000 cubits by Rabbinic enactment.


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