[Avodah] goy vs chiloni

[Arie Folger]

This is the curious confluence of closing doors and circuits, when
doors are electrically operated.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> <<By the way, (a) I disagree that by operating an electric door, the
> building becomes changed, according to Chazon Ish. Only the circuit
> changed, and even the circuit, was broken before and after the door's
> opening; it was only open (changed) while the door was in the process
> of opening. Hence, I find it very unconvincing to claim that the
> building should become assur on account of the door's opening.>>
>
> In fact one of RSZA's questions against CI is that according to CI every
> opening and closing a door should be boneh of completing a circuit.
> Obviously CI must differentiate between the cases. In particular CI stressed
> that closing an electric circuit made it "alive" in contadistinction to
> opening and closing doors



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