[Avodah] YT Sheini Shell Golah and the Internet

[Zev Sero]

Rich, Joel wrote:
> 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.

> So what will we do when Pesach rotates out of the aviv?

Sorry, you've lost me.  How does that question follow from anything
said before?  Or is it just a random question, since we're talking
about the fixed calendar?  If so, if it ever ch"v becomes a problem
we'll have to deal with it.  I assume the resolution, should it ch"v
be necessary, will be that this is the day that the Sanhedrin decreed
will be Rosh Chodesh, and whether they were wise to have done so is
irrelevant.  "Atem afilu mezidim".

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