[Avodah] YT Sheini Shell Golah and the Internet

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

Clarification:
I do NOT mean to overturn this Taqqamah-gzeira.

I am merely questioning - given a change in technology i is it still
applicable?

Consider the gzeira of reading by a lamp on Friday night! It still exists
- but it does not apply to electric lamps!

I am suggesting that [possibly] the taqqnah encompass the OLD perimeter
which was "maqqom shemagiin. And that was about 12 days walking distance
from the BD.

I would suggest that now in the jet age and the internet age, that the
"maqqom magi'in" peirmeter is globally inclusive!

Summary:
Just as the gzeira for not reading Friday Night still apllies to oil lamps
- So too the Taqqnah of YT Sheinii still stands for places such as outer
space that would still require a while for sub-space communication or
for warp-drive to reach! :-).

Shana Tovah
RRW
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