[Avodah] Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum's Position on the Kosher Switch

[Saul Mashbaum via Avodah]

RJRich
>>>Sounds to me like r' asher weiss's makeh bpatish definition.

RMBerger
>>>>
You lost me. I wasn't discussing which melakhah -- if any -- one violates
by using electricity in an of itself, but how using this switch relates
to that melakhah.
>>>


IIAMN, the idea RJR is expressing is that the poseik has ad initio
determined that the action in question is forbidden, and now is
searching around for the category into which to place this prohibition. I
have heard RAWeiss explicitly use this concept in classifying the use of
electricity as makeh b'patish, based on a Yerushalmi - it's not an idea
just made up by contemporary poskim.  It does seem that some poskim are
looking at the switch and saying "it *must *be assur somehow"; in any event
that seems to me to be what RJR is suggesting is going on.

Saul Mashbaum
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