Re: Shabbos candles (Was Re: What's wrong with Conservative Judaism)


levin.jj@xxxxxxxxx wrote, inter alia:

Apparently the O rules are immutable and unchangeable to the O
(although I continue to maintain, at the risk of more arguments here,
that pruzbul, eruv, heter iska, etc., are changes which the O had to
make reluctantly).

Jay

How are pruzbul and eruv, both of which are rabbinic exceptions to
rabbinic decrees, "reluctantly made changes"? Eruv permits carrying
which is otherwise rabbinically, not Biblically, prohibited. Indeed,
where the Bible prohibits carrying, an eruv is of no avail. Eruv was
promulgated simultaneously with the prohibition; it was not a
subsequently enacted change. Pruzbul, too, is not a means of
circumventing a Biblical prohibition. It was a rabbinical enactment to
avoid the rabbinic decree which extended the Biblical cancellation of
debt to circumstances in which that Biblical requirement did not apply.


Meir

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