[Avodah] Al petach beito mabachutz

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:21:27 -0500, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> Lots of things have changed since the time the Talmud was finally
> determined to be "sealed".  But the Talmud does *not* say that one
> should light inside, it gives a heter *bish'at sakana*.  It so
> happened that the later stages of the "sealing" of the Talmud
> happened under increasingly tyrranical Zoroastrian rule, and so it
> was a "she'at sakana" for most of those years (though presumably
> not during Mar Zutra's short reign).  But where is it even hinted
> that this should apply when the sakana is over?

Where is it clear the sakanah they were describing is over?

I think the saqanah is whenever we're living in a country in which
people might not want to see us celebrating overthrowing the gov't.
Which is why I didn't think it would be a problem in Medinat
Yisrael (at least, not until Yossi Feiglin's talk about really
doing it...)

Do we know that's not what the gemara meant, just because their saqanah
was so much more acute?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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