[Avodah] 2 days yomtov

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> <<I am fuzzy about this.  makom shemagi'im went at least a 10 day hourney
> BEYIOND the borders of EY.  So even if Eilat was NOT in EY  proper it
> would
> still not have had a minhag avos to have 2 days of YT!>>
>
> The accepted halacha is that 1 or 2 days yomtov depends only on EY and
> not on where
> the shelichim reached. Hence R. Elyashiv (and I heard RAL) pasken that
> Eilat has
> a halacha of chutz la-aretz and requires 2 days yomtov. Needless to
> say this is not
> the minhag of most people who leave or visit Eilat.


The criterai of Shas is "minhag avoseinu beyadeinu"
If you use the borders of EY as a practical proxy for the original Talmudic
norm then I woudl simply suggest revising that to a pragmatic use of the
medina's borders.

IOW maf nafsahch. If the original criteria has morphed then morph it again
to make it more practical



>
> kol tuv
>
> --
> Eli Turkel
>



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