[Avodah] Fw: electricity on shabbat

[Ben Waxman]

The quibble I have on your quibble is that you are talking about a situation 
where the object doesn't work. I am talking about a situation where it does 
and yet it still fails to spark, because that is the nature of the 
instrument. Sometimes, most times, the vast majority of the time, it sparks. 
But is that sparking an intrinsic part of the process?

Ben
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>
> Post if u wish
> Ben:
> «I thought that to be a psik reisha, first of all it has to be 100% (100% 
> of
> all chickens who have their head cut off will die) and the melacha 
> performed
> has to be a direct result of the action.
>
> Ben»
>
> Quibble
> Given that 1/1000 times a light bulb is burned out - so
> Is turning on a light bulb via a switch still a P"siq reisheh?
>
> Same for car battery. It MIGHT be dead once every 5 years.
>
> To me the word "inevitable" is better than "100%".  Because halachah would 
> [almost always] treat the virtually inevitable as absolutely inevitable.
>
> KT
> RRW
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