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<DIV>"So's this. If interlocking the fingers is dangerous, and there's an
issur<BR>on doing dangerous things, then it would follow that an issur is
justified."</DIV>
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<DIV>That's not how I see it. Smoking is assur because we have recently
learned of its serious dangers. Thus, based on the venerable halacha of
not harming yourself, its ban is not new halacha. What, however, was
learned recently about interlocking fingers that was not known before?</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>