<BODY><P>RRWolpoe has posited several times that there are levels of strictness of d'rabbanans, based largely, but not exclusively, on closeness to some d'oraita, or lack thereof. </P>
<P>This thesis is confirmed in the 6th chapter of R. Tzvi (Herschel) Schacter's Eretz HaTzvi. The perek discusses this concept in regards to the issurim d'rabbanan of Shabbat. </P>
<P>Briefly, there are two categories of issurim d'rebbanan of Shabbat: m'lachot d'rabbanan, and gzeirot. Muktza, refua, mekach umemkar, and amira l'nochri, among other things, are in the latter caregory. </P>
<P>For the most part, the g'zeirot are not as stringent as the m'lachot d'rabbanan. For example, they are permitted for a chole shein bo sakana, while the m'lachot d'rabbanan are forbidden in this case lacking some further cause for leniency such as shvut d'shvut.</P>
<P>In one respect the g'zeirot are more stringent than the m'lachot d'rabbanan: the latter require some action to be done, while the former can be violated even b'sheiv v'al taase (several examples are given, among them sh'hiyaa and hachzara). </P>
<P>There is eveidence that even within the g'zeirot there are differing levels of stringency, ayen sham.</P>
<P>Saul Mashbaum</P></BODY>