[Avodah] electricity on shabbat

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:53:54AM -0500, David Riceman wrote:
: > In any case, most batteries to
: >not push 120v, and therefore what it does to the wire is less signific<a>ant
: >-- barring wires designed for it, like a flashlight bulb filament.

: But Rabbi Karelitz understands this to be a qualitative change, not a 
: quantitative change, so "less significant" is irrelevant....

Unless it's not longer a pesiq reishei that the change to the wire will
cross the observable threshold, which was where my head was. Or is the
CI saying that *temporarily* being a "current carrying wire" is a tiqun?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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