[Avodah] YT Sheini Shell Golah and the Internet

[Rich, Joel]

Micha Berger wrote:

> I was taught as a child that YTSSG was about knowing what to do when 
> we go back to al pi re'iyah.

Ah, that explains it.  I believe you were taught incorrectly.
The reason is explicitly given in the letter itself, which is quoted in Beitza 4b.  "Sometimes the government might make a decree, and you will come to get confused", i.e. if Torah is suppressed everyone who is capable of doing his own calculations will have to do so, and someone might make a mistake.

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So what will we do when Pesach rotates out of the aviv?
KT&ST
Joel Rich
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