[Avodah] har habayit

[Daniel Israel]

On Mon, 28 May 2007 00:37:01 -0600 "Shoshana L. Boublil" 
>  From: Eli Turkel 
>   Hence I would suspect that if one really took every shitah 
>  into account that there is not much room left
>
>The point of the post was that people keep following their 
>feelings instead of checking the facts on the ground.
>
>I asked specifically. They said that going by the machmir 
>positions, there is still sufficient places to visit on the area 
>known nowadays as the Temple Mount to walk for a period of 2 
>hours.

I understood the point to be that combining _every_ shita would 
leave very little room.  It is possible that the "machmir" 
positions you describe would take into account certain machlochsim 
between major authorities, but not all the (probably vast numbers) 
of shitos.  One would have to ask, "are you aware of any shita 
which is not covered by avoiding such and such areas?"  Or is this 
what you asked?

Also, we've discussed here before the appropriateness (or lack 
thereof) of being choshesh for kol hadeios, and my recollection was 
that the chevra for the most part at least hesitant to apply this 
concept too widely.  On this inyan people are taking this approach 
as a default.  What is the difference?  Is it because this is a 
safek in metzius rather than din?  Or is there a sense that there 
is no kulah lurking in being machmir?  A specific sense that 
regarding the kedushah of the Mikdash it is especially important to 
be machmir?  Or something else?

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu