<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Eli Turkel <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<<I am fuzzy about this. makom shemagi'im went at least a 10 day hourney<br>
BEYIOND the borders of EY. So even if Eilat was NOT in EY proper it would<br>
still not have had a minhag avos to have 2 days of YT!>><br>
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The accepted halacha is that 1 or 2 days yomtov depends only on EY and<br>
not on where<br>
the shelichim reached. Hence R. Elyashiv (and I heard RAL) pasken that Eilat has<br>
a halacha of chutz la-aretz and requires 2 days yomtov. Needless to<br>
say this is not<br>
the minhag of most people who leave or visit Eilat.</blockquote><div><br>The criterai of Shas is "minhag avoseinu beyadeinu"<br>If you use the borders of EY as a practical proxy for the original Talmudic norm then I woudl simply suggest revising that to a pragmatic use of the medina's borders.<br>
<br>IOW maf nafsahch. If the original criteria has morphed then morph it again to make it more practical<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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kol tuv<br>
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<font color="#888888">Eli Turkel<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>