[Avodah] electricity on shabbat

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:19:28AM -0500, Rich, Joel wrote:
: R' Asher Weiss says explicitly that what you describe is IIRC makeh
: bpatish-anything chazal "felt" was "not shabbatdik" falls into a single
: category...

Where it's not a shevus. There is a category for *constructive activity*
that is simply "not Shabbosdik", and thus deOraisa, and then there is
shevus.

> (yes we've discussed this before), halacha as an algorithmic, objective
> process . I wonder if that is the reason why there is such an effort
> to fit electricity (and others) into a neat micro-halachic category?

1- Talmud Torah

2- By knowing the category, we may know more detail than intuition can
   tell us.

3- *Perhaps* to make sure we're not fooling ourselves? Without the rules
   (albeit many of them are loose rules) of halachic process, what keeps
   the system from decaying into an anti-nomian religion like R? IOW,
   what keeps the gestalt view of the posqim we're relying on in sync
   with actual daas Torah?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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