[Avodah] shabbat mikes

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:09:17PM -0700, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Shabbat-microphones-catching-on-among-orthodox-despite-taboos-402173
: 
: i thought that  tzomet products are meant for  sha'at hadchak /bedieved

Gerama devices, yes. But a passive element microphone feeding a PA
system that is never entirely off -- so it's never turned off or on --
and has no lit indicators is an entirely different beast.

(Most microphones generate current when vibrated; a passive element
microphone changes resistance.)

Still not an open-and-shut heter, as this article makes it sound. And
there are more grounds for Sepharadim to be meiqil then Ashkenazim,
based on a machloqes between the Mechaber and the Rama in OC 252:5.
R' Ovadia was matir.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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