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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>RSM wrote (on Areivim but moderator felt I should
respond on Avodah):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>My (Sony) ebook reader automatically turns itself off if nobody
interacts<BR>with it for 30 minutes. On my computers, screensavers cut in after
the same<BR>period or less.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>CM responds:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>So which is your point? 1) The computer is chayav for
mechikas Shem <IMG style="POSITION: static; MARGIN: 0px; FLOAT: none"
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interact with the computer at least every 29 minutes without fail (or until
Shabbos arrives), because it could not be that since it will be erased in 30
minutes anyway, you are patur for mechika if you do it sooner - could it? [If
you write on a box containing dynamite that is timed to explode in 30 minutes
but erase it before it explodes, by your example there would be no ksiva or
mechika?]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Kol tuv</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
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