[Avodah] yom tov sheini

[Joel Rich]

 found the following online:

My father, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, ruled that the airport has the
status of a desert. Therefore, a resident of Eretz Yisroel is allowed to
travel from Eretz Yisroel by plane to the airport on Yom Tov Sheini. Once
there, that resident of Eretz Yisroel may do melachah while still in the
airport. Since the airport is a place where people are arriving from all
over the world, anyone there can assume that you came from Eretz Yisroel
(as cited in Yom Tov Sheini Kehilchaso 3:27).

However, there are two reasons why it is forbidden for you to leave the
airport. The first is that there is a problem of walking outside the
techum. Furthermore, it is a zilzul to Yom Tov Sheini to walk outside the
airport. Even if no one who is keeping Yom Tov Sheini knows that you flew
in that day, it is still considered a zilzul to Yom Tov Sheini for yourself
(see Yom Tov Sheini Kehilchaso 3:30 in the name of many poskim).

You do not need to be concerned that non-religious Jews will see you in the
airport on Yom Tov Sheini and think that you have been traveling on Yom
Tov. Most of them do not even know about Yom Tov Rishon, and there is
therefore no maris ayin for them to see you doing something that is
permitted.


ME- I don’t quite understand a few things. In the first paragraph it seems
the issue is what will others assume (and why would that they assume be
dispositive?)

The reference in the second paragraph focuses zilzul on yourself, but if I
read the reference correctly it of bnai chul coming to zilzul.
In the last paragraph. If 51% did know, is it then marit ayin? Is the
supposition that they don’t know valid? I would have thought the same
zilzul issue would be of concern?


Thoughts?
Bsorot tovot

\joel rich
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