[Avodah] [Areivim] Article about Kashrus Lecture From the Hamodia

[Zev Sero]

On Areivim, Yitzchok Levine wrote:
> The November 1 issue of The Hamodia contained excerpts from a talk 
> that Rabbi Yosef Eisen gave during Chol Moed Succos in Flatbush. In 
> it he discussed some of the ramifications of the Shevach scandal that 
> occurred in Monsey.

The article includes:
> Maybe they’re being meikil with pilot lights. A Rema quotes an
> issur b’heter, and says it’s a bedi’eved. So, too, rule the Aruch
> Hashulchan and the Chochmas Adam, and that’s what the Biur Hagra
> says on the spot — not to rely on this lechatchilah.  But for some
> inexplicable reason, over ninety percent of hashgachos are meikil.

Lo zachiti lehavin.  The Rema is in YD 113:7, but I don't see where
he says it's bediavad.  He doesn't give it the explicit approval of
a "vechen nohagin", but nor does he make any negative comment.  Nor
does the Biur Hagra seem to say what R Eisen says he says.  Rather,
the Gra (in note 20) refers us to what he said earlier (in note 18),
that he disagrees with the Rema on the whole question of the fire,
and paskens like the Mechaber that lighting the fire doesn't help
at all, neither lechatchila nor bediavad; it therefore follows that
lighting the pilot light doesn't help either.



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