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

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 04:42:49PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 9/08/2011 2:56 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> I do not know what specific use of "mishum eivah" RZS is referring to
>> as bring modern.

> The heter to break shabbos in order to save a nochri did not exist until
> about 1800...

See AZ 26a, R' Yosef says that a bas Yisrael may midwife for a nachris
besekhar -- mishum eivah. Abaye disagrees on the metzius of whether or
not this is a likely cause of eivah, not on the halachic concept.

But in any case, I don't think the idea is acharonic.

-Micha

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