[Avodah] shabbas//mishum eiva, etc???

[Zev Sero]

On 7/08/2011 7:22 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> could someone please explain to me the process of how and why and when
> the chachamim are allowed to enact, or go around, clear midoraisa guidelines???
> eg, mishum eiva saving an aino""yehudi, etc, {or is that not a midoraisa???};

Eivah is pikuach nefesh; about 1800 or so, when it became clear that the
excuses which had stood us in good stead for 2000 years or more were no
longer going to be accepted, we suddenly find the first mention of such
a heter.  I don't know who first came up with it; the earliest I've seen
it is in the Chasam Sofer.  But the reason is simply to prevent a pogrom.


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