[Avodah] May Kohanim visit the Rebbe's Ohel by means of a "box"?

[Richard Wolpoe]

Rav * Herschel Schachter states:  *

Years ago, a prominent rabbi in *Eretz Yisrael* came up with an original
> idea as to how to permit *Kohanim* to go to medical school (i.e., to come
> in contact with *meisim* (corpses)).Rav Moshe Feinstein published a *
> teshuva* pointing out that this rabbi's suggestion could have been
> implemented centuries ago, but never was. Therefore we must assume that
> there must be some good explanation as to why the suggestion is not correct.
> (Indeed, in my sefer - *B'Ikvei HaTzon *- I have published what I consider
> quite a reasonable rebuttal.) And even if Eliyahu *Hanavi* were to appear
> and express his opinion in favor of this rabbi's notion, Rav Moshe thinks we
> would not even follow him on this matter (Igros Moshe, Y.D. 3:155). A
> matter of *halacha* which has been accepted for centuries can not be
> overturned, unless one can demonstrate that there simply was an error
> involved from the very outset.
>

*source:
*http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2003/rsch_masorah.html


And now by extension may kohanim use an innovation such as a box to visit
the Rebb's Ohel?

   1. Does that constitute a Shinuy of Halachah?
   2. Is it a valid Chiddush?
   3. Is this a Reform C"V
   4. iss it normative as per Talmud but not OK since it was never done
   before?***
   5. Is it an evolution of facts on the gorund?  IOW just as there USED
   to be a reshus harrabim in the Time of the Gmara but there aren't any more
   [as per many poskim]  therefore we have different norms re:  Hotza'ah?


***See YD 1:1 the machlokes betwen Beis Yosef and Shach re: lo ra'inu eino
raya
And I would posit that even for the Shach some lo ra'inu's are a bigger raya
than othe lo ra'inu's.



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