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[Marty Bluke]

I wrote:

: I have never understood the idea of putting the schach on wooden sticks
: which rest on something that is mekabel tumah (e.g. metal) for the
: following reason. The wood that is used to hold up the schach is in and of
: itself kosher schach (otherwise it can't be used as a maamid)...
and R' Micha Berger answered"
"Until you put it on a maamid that is meqabel tum'ah. Then it becomes
invalid for sekhakh, but still valid as a maamid. Your sevara is that
of the CI's chumerah"

I don't think this is related to teh Chazon Ish at all (and neither
does R' Frank in Mikraei Kodesh). In the case I described above you
have something that is kasher schach that is resting on a davar
hamekabel tuma. Why should you arbitrarily say that it isn't called
schach but a maamid? The Chazon Ish goes much further, The Chazon Ish
holds that you can't even use metal screws to hold the walls together.
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