<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">: But d'rabbanan's are very difficult. We don't really have the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">: power to institute new d'rabbanans today...</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I think RSZA's shitah boils down to saying that we do.>></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I find that RSZA was not consistent on this question.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">As discussed before he felt that all cakes were assur on Pesach because that was</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">the idea behind kitniyot.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">OTOH he held (originally) that turning off a light on shabbat is permitted. Turning on</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">the light is starting a fire but turning it off is only stopping further elctricity from coming</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">and it would be loke moving the coals further away which is not extinguishing..</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">When R. Halperin's father asked RSZA that it would cause confusion the answer was that just like a poske cant allow the forbidden so a posek cant forbid the allowed.</font></div><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Later he changed and said that possibly it is more like removing the oil from a lamp</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">which is prohibited.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Also RSZA objected to defining electricity as molid on the grounds that one cant extend molid to things that dont appear in the gemara and gave various examples of things that look like moild but we dont prohibit them<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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