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<DIV>In a message dated 9/10/2009 8:49:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
gershonseif@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Is
reading the temperature part of the issur of measuring? That would have
nothing to do with reading a clock. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>>>>>><BR>I just don't see passive reading as part of any
issur. You did the measuring, in effect, when you first put up the
thermometer -- before Shabbos. It's no more assur to read the thermometer
that you set up before Shabbos than it is to drink the tea that you boiled
before Shabbos. That's how it seems to me, anyway.</DIV>
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<DIV>Let's take a somewhat different, but pretty common (in Florida anyway)
scenario. It starts to get hot in the house and you go over to the
thermostat that controls the A/C. You see that it is 85 degrees in your
house even though the thermostat is set at 70. You say Drat, the A/C is on
the fritz again. I never ever heard anyone suggest that it was wrong to go
have a look and see just how hot it is in the house!</DIV>
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<DIV>Well OK enough mimetics, now somebody else has to chime in with
text.....</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________</B></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>