[Avodah] which is more problematic

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 06:31:03AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
:                                               Under the current rules, Yom
: Haatzma'ut falls on 5 Iyar less than half the time....
: While I personally applaud the lessened chillul Shabbos that has resulted
: from this change, I am concerned about saying Hallel (et al) on a day which
: is not the actual anniversary. Was the impetus for the change from the
: Knesset or from the rabanim?

The CR's office, in order to reduce chillul Shabbos.

IIRC, for a while after the rule change, the RCA advised observing on
5 Iyyar in chu"l anyway, as American O observances wouldn't pose that
kind of chilul Shabbos risk. They since changed policy.

I suggested that someone may make peace with the fact by noting that
having a country where the legal holidays are moved around in order to
minimize chillul Shabbos is much of what one is saying Hallel for.

But as one blogger put it... When you sit down to learn daf beis,
you make a birkhas haTorah but not a siyum. There is what to celebrate
in the existence of such a country, but the fact that they need to worry
about chilul Shabbos by the masses shows Yom haAtzma'ut is a "birhas
haTorah", not a siyum.

Or as Rav Dovid Lifshitz put it... There is much to celebrate about YhA.
But beyond atzma'ut, the nation needs to find the etzem. The job is only
half-done.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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