[Avodah] electricity on shabbat

[David Riceman]

Micha Berger wrote:
> 2- don't think the CI's boneh was about battery devices; only those that
> plug into an ohel.
>   
If I correctly understand Rabbi Auerbach's description of Rabbi 
Karelitz's opinion (which I sincerely doubt I do) it is that electric 
current induces a qualitative change in the wire it flows through.  I 
don't see how the current being drawn from a battery would affect that.

David Riceman