[Avodah] Mining on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:40:26PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: If the melachos are derived or defined as those actions which were
: necessary for building the Mishkan, and the Mishkan used a lot of gold,
: silver, and brass, then wouldn't the acquiring of such metals be an
: Av Melacha?

Lemaaseh, weren't they acquired from the Mitzriyum before leaving, rather
than from gold, silver and copper and tin or zinc mines in the midbar?

(Copper + tin = bronze, whereas
copper + zinc = brass,
but I don't know which is nechoshes, or even if nechoshes means copper
itself.)

-Micha

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