[Avodah] chumrah leading to a kulah

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:21:38PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
: Chumros about Bein Hashmashos on Saturday end up being kulos about Bein
: Hashmashos on Friday. Chumros about Bein Hashmashos on Friday end up being
: kulos about Bein Hashmashos on Saturday. And so on.

Why? Someone who starts Shabbos earlier than 1 mil before sunset and
ends later than 90 min after sunset is machmir about bein hashemashos 
on both days, as extreme as every shitah I've heard of.

I agree with your point, just that in this case, nothing compells
consistency.

Just as someone could be machmir both ways about grape juice: Someone
could refuse to use grape juice for qiddush or 4 kosos and also refuse
to drink stam mitz gafnum (or whatever you'd call it).

A chumerah in one din only causes a kulah in another (or a kulah in
one din only opens an opportunity to be machmir in another) when it's
a single decision about a single act in one event. Not when deciding
general rules -- there would be no problem with playing safe both ways.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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