[Avodah] Clarification on Hareidi El-Al

[dfinch847 at aol.com]

Earlier today I suggested that El-Al might schedule special hareidi 
flights in Gedolim would sit in first-class and issue flight-plan 
instructions to the pilots.

An Areivim poster has e-mailed me privately, stating: "[Areivem] 
moderators should not allow a statement implying gdolim offer 
instruction about things they know nothing about." Setting aside the 
broader issues of the limits of rabbinical knowledge and of what is and 
is not fair game for rabbinical responsa, I meant only that the Gedolim 
could advise the El-Al pilots on things like whether flying over 
certain landmarks (e.g., C instead of O cemetaries, burial pits for 
worn-out religious books, etc.) is issur. Some Gedolim have given such 
advice in the past. You can't expect a pilot to make such religious 
decisions himself while busily keeping a 747 airborne, especially if 
the pilot is chiloni.




David S. Finch
dfinch847 at aol.com



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