[Avodah] Minimization of the Heter Mechirah

[Arie Folger]

> RSBA pointed us on Areivim to
> <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=12057>:
> : Chief Rabbinate to Reduce Use of Special 7th-Year Dispensation
> :
> : The Chief Rabbinate plans to reduce its reliance on the controversial
> : "land sale dispensation" for the upcoming Shemittah "year of fallow."

RMB wrote:
> I think this is consistent with RAYK's original intent. The heter was to
> keep the yishuv viable. I do not know if there was ever a thought that the
> heter mechirah would be used when (1) EY economy isn't as agrarian and (2)
> even the farmers have other fiscal options.
>
> I'm posting this to Avodah as a means of asking whether someone has meqoros
> from the period that would indicate one way or the other. I'm simply
> repeating what I heard 12th hand or so.

In his biography of Rav Ovadyah Yossef, RDBenny Lau writes that ROY held the 
heter mekhirah to be lekhat'hilah, as shittah bizman hazeh deRabbanan. I was 
surprised and would like to hear the 'hevrah's take on this.

RMB: thanks for posting this on Avodah.

Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger
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