[Avodah] [Areivim] Meet the "rabbi"

[Harry Maryles]

(Cross posting to Avodah) 
 
--- On Wed, 8/4/10, torahmike at gmail.com <torahmike at gmail.com> wrote:

>>Conducting an intermarriage on Shabbos is bad, but using a microphone on
>>Shabbos would put him beyond the pale. 


 While this was said in jest/sarcasm, the truth is marrying non-jewish is only a lav, while breaking shabbos midoraysa theoreticallly
would be a lav  + misah. If I understand correctly, someone who marries non-jewish could theoretically be trusted for hilchos kashrus(someone correct me if i am wrong). While many consider intermarriage the 'worst' sin ever, I think that concept itself is one borrowed from the non-jews(irony)! The worst sins are those with the harshest punishments prescribed by the torah, says Rabeinu Yonah.
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AFAIK there is no Issur melacha in using a microphone on Shabbos. The issue is Mashmiyas Kol - making a loud noise on Shabbos (which at most is an Issur D'Rabbanan IIRC). 
 
Microphones that are on before Shabbos and not touched are no different wrt Melacha than hearing aids which operate on the same principle (amplifying the sound passively). I don't know of any Poskim that prohibit using a hearing aid on Shabbos.
 
The fact is that even the electric component of a microphone might not be in the category of a Melacha. The CI Taaneh'd that Zerem (the flow of electrons) constitued the Melacha of Boneh.  But I'm not convinced of that and neither was RSZA - who although disagreeing with the CI about the Metzius of electricity = was Noteh to the CI in Psak.
 
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