[Avodah] inconceivable-- Ben Sorer uMoreh

[Zev Sero]

Simon Montagu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Michael Makovi<mikewinddale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rabbi Aharon
>> Lichtenstein and Rabbi Yehuda Amital posed the following question:
>> you're on a desert island, and so mishum eiva doesn't apply. What do
>> you do?
> 
> Why does "lo p'log [plug?] hhachamim" not apply in this case?

Which chachamim?  Bear in mind that the halacha accepted by everybody
until about 1800 was that one may *not* do so, and *not* to worry about
eivah.  About that time the metzius of the nochrim seems to have changed
and the fear of eivah to have become more real, leading the poskim of
that time to rule that one may be mechalel shabbos for this purpose.
When that concern doesn't exist, what possible basis could there be
for a heter?!

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