[Avodah] water and electricity

[Liron Kopinsky]

To me they seem inherently different.
1) A tap is not a broken connection it is a blockage.
2) Allowing the water to come out does not complete a flow path, it just
enables the water to come out on its own with the already present pressure.


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM, David Riceman <driceman at att.net> wrote:

> The question came up over Shabbos whether Rabbi Karelitz, who prohibited
> opening and closing (as they say in modern Hebrew) an electrical circuit on
> Shabbos because of binyan and stirah, said the same thing about a water
> circuit (e.g., opening or closing a tap in the sink).  We could think of no
> logical distinction between the two cases.
>
> David Riceman
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