[Avodah] Microphones on Shabbos

[Rich, Joel]

In his most recent weekly shiur, Rav Asher Zelig Weiss expressed himself
about electricity in almost exactly the same terms as RMB does here: the
prohibition was determined first, and then the poskim looked around for
a category to fit it into. 

He cited a Yerushalmi (which unfortunately I cannot quote pefectly
accurately) in which chazal categorized actions forbidden on Shabbat;
any activity they knew, apparently intuitively,  was prohibited which
they could not fit into one of the other categories was classified as
makeh-b'patish. This illustrates the concept that in some cases,the
prohibition anteceded the classification.

I think it's fair to say that he indicated that this phenomenon is
uncommon, but he was emphatic that it definitely exists.

Saul Mashbaum

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I have heard him say the same thing but I think Micha's point iiuc was
that this is a more general phenomena. (I would guess this is what R'
YBS was referring to when he commented on the broad flexibility
available to the chochmai hamesora)

BTW R'AZW also iirc said given the technology explosion we need a broad
shouldered creative thinker (iirc he mentioned like the Rashba) who
could deal with all the new questions.

 

KT
Joel Rich

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