[Avodah] kinyan chatzer

[Zev Sero]

On 5/07/2011 5:42 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> 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.

Why?  What grounds do you have for such an assumption?


> 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).

I thought they got the planes to take a different route.  Otherwise
what possible grounds could there be for deciding that the tum'ah stops
at some arbitrary altitude?


>  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.

Really?  How would you know that?

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