[Avodah] kinyan chatzer

[Eli Turkel]

<<On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:45:34PM +0000, Elazar M. Teitz wrote:
: However, the extent of the chatzeir is irrelevant to a satellite.
: My chatzeir does not acquire someone else's property which is within it,
: unless its owner wants to convey ownership to me.

I suggested the case of yi'ush habaal. Comcast gave up on recovering
the satellite, do I get salvage rights? Or is it hefqer and others have
equal claim?>>

As we have discussed with shiurim - chametz is not batel on Pesach is
not to be taken literally, microscopic doesnt count
so with kinyan chatzer going up indefinitely obviously doesnt depend
on a flat or round or rotating earth.
It means up to distances that chazal could consider to be reasonable.
Satellites, planes etc are too far up.

It is true that R. Elyashiv seemed to apply tumah until planes.
However, that seems to be a daas yachid and the stories of cohanim
doing strange things when a plane passes over a cemetery seemed to
have died away (no pun intended).  Taking Micha's example it would
imply that a cohen should not be in a satellite having little choice
as it whizzes by many cemeteries some having Jews buried there.

-- 
Eli Turkel