To me they seem inherently different.<br>1) A tap is not a broken connection it is a blockage.<br>2) Allowing the water to come out does not complete a flow path, it just enables the water to come out on its own with the already present pressure.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM, David Riceman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:driceman@att.net">driceman@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The question came up over Shabbos whether Rabbi Karelitz, who prohibited opening and closing (as they say in modern Hebrew) an electrical circuit on Shabbos because of binyan and stirah, said the same thing about a water circuit (e.g., opening or closing a tap in the sink). We could think of no logical distinction between the two cases.<br>
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