[Avodah] YT Sheini Shell Golah and the Internet

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:

> 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!

That would be fine, if the terms of the decree to observe the 2nd day
nowadays had said anything about "where shluchim reach".  But it
didn't.  What it said was "keep on doing what you've been doing until
now".  Since we were keeping the second day, we must continue to do so.
Only those who never kept the second day may continue not keeping it.
(The Rambam applies this principle even in EY, wherever there is no
established minhag of keeping one day!)

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