[Avodah] Interlocking Fingers

[Zev Sero]

On 17/08/2011 8:36 AM, Joseph C. Kaplan wrote:
>> "So's this. If interlocking the fingers is dangerous, and there's an issur

> on doing dangerous things, then it would follow that an issur is justified."
> That's not how I see it. Smoking is assur because we have recently learned
> of its serious dangers. Thus, based on the venerable halacha of not harming
> yourself, its ban is not new halacha. What, however, was learned recently
> about interlocking fingers that was not known before?

Recently?  There's nothing at all recent about this.

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