[Avodah] royal wedding

[Zev Sero]

On 1/05/2011 1:25 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> He is also a lord but that does not seem
> enough of a heter

I wouldn't be so sure about that.  There is a significant area of heter
for shtadlanim in all the issurim related to socialising with goyim; the
grand-daddy of them all, Nechemiah ben Chachalyah, was called Hatirshoso
because the Sanhedrin gave him a heter to drink goyishe wine!


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