[Avodah] Mechallel Shabbos to destroy a non-kosher phone

[Zev Sero]

On 3/07/2012 5:14 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> On 7/3/2012 3:54 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 3/07/2012 3:36 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>>> I don't see how this addresses my question. Accepting someone as one's
>>> rebbe is different than walking into their court.
>>
>> Yes, it's greater. He's not a posek, he's a melech.
>
> Not halakhically.

That's your opinion.  Chassidim tend to take "man malki rabanan"
pretty literally.

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