[Avodah] Al petach beito mabachutz

[Dov Kay]

<<Do you really mean galus, or golah? One is only in the golah in chu"l, but 
one can be in galus in EY as well. Galus Yavan was entirely within the bayis 
sheini period.

I ask because if RMS means that the "she'as shakanah" is galus, then the 
sevara should apply in pre mashiach EY as well. Whereas if he means that the 
sakanah is being a minority in a country ruled by non-Jews, it wouldn't.>>

I hope that I have not misrepresented RMS's position.  RMS gives two reasons 
why most acharonim hold that we should nowadays light inside.  First, that 
the "sha'as sakana" method of lighting inside was "instituted" because there 
would be times when lighting outside would be dangerous.  We therefore all 
light inside so as to avoid the occurrence of dangers in those situations 
(and compares this to R. Y Salanter's ruling that everyone should eat on YK 
during the cholera epidemic in Vilna).  The second explanation, which he 
seems to favour, is that the poskim were worried that non-Jews would 
extinguish the lights left outside.

He was not making any comment on our state of "golah" or "golus".  That was 
my contribution.  RMS does not really distinguish between EY and chutz 
la'aretz, although he praises the custom of the p'rushim of Yerushalayim.  
>From my own perspective, I do not have the same problem with outdoor 
tallis-wearing or chanuka lighting in EY as in chutz la'aretz.  So I suppose 
that I should have used the term "golah".

Kol tuv
Dov Kay

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