<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>Rav Naftali Rothstein -- who is the JLIC (Jewish Learning on Campus) rabbi at the University<br>of Illinois Hillel, where I usually daven -- gives a short shiur on hilchos Shabbos each Shabbat.<br>Today's topic was whether peeling with a vegetable peeler is borer.<br><br>R'Rothstein mentioned that there is a "rumor" that Rav Moshe Feinstein held that a vegetable<br>peeler is not a special utensil for sorting, so therefore peeling with a peeler is ok.<br><br>(Acc. to Rav Rothstein, <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.eichlers.com/Page.asp?ID=0506913641cf570006325788c4c59d21aabe32e5672bd5aef1d9&ProductCustomFieldID=13224" class="searchPageLink">Rabbi Dovid Ribiat</a> mentions this rumor in his 39 Melachos books, without<br>mentioning a source).<br style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>Does anyone in the chevra know anything about this?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Shalom Yitz (Steve Scher)<br><br>ps - If I understood and remember R'Rothstein correctly, Rav Moshe's position follows from the <br>Pri M'gadim's position that removing peel is not sorting, because the peel is not a different kind<br>from the rest of the fruit or vegetable. Therefore, a peeler is no different from a knife. (I believe<br>R'Rothstein also mentioned that ROY holds this way). But, of course, if you hold by the Pri M'Gadim's<br>position, then isn't it irrelevant whether the peeler is or isn't a peeling instrument?)<br></div></body></html>