[Avodah] lulav on shabbat

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> EraI = time when 2 days was a safek
> EraII = time after the gezerah to keep 2 days in Beitzah
> 
> 1. The groups keeping 2 days in eraI and eraII are not necessarily
> the same.  In eraI it depended on where the messengers actually
> reached. In fact there could be a difference between Tishre and Nisan
> because the messengers didnt travel on Yom Kippur.
> In eraII it depends only ony on the boundaries of EY.

Who says so?


> Thus someone living across the Jordan from Jericho keeps 2 days
> though it is a short ride to Jerusalem.

How do you know this wasn't the case in era 1?  I.e., how do you know
that shluchim went there?


> According to many poskim one keeps 2 days in Eilat since it is ouside
> halachic EY even though it is not that far away.

*And* shluchim didn't go there.


> (not according to Rambam even today it depends on where the messengers
> used to reach however we dont pasken like this Rambam

Do you know who paskens against it, exactly?  Especially with regard
to places outside EY that did get shluchim?


> although the story goes that CI and the Griz kept 2nd day lechumra)

Was this chumra because they held the halacha *might* be like the
Rambam, or was it because they held the halacha is *definitely* like
the Rambam and therefore they had a safek whether shluchim came to
the site of modern Bnei Brak?

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