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It sometimes does evolve leniently, such as the kosher status of Turkey. It goes from uncertainty to certainty but once a consensus crystallizes, it remains there and is built on.
“Hirhurim on June 27, 2011 at 11:03 am
Jon, halakhah evolves and once something is accepted as forbidden, it is nearly impossible to undo it. Even moreso when it is universally accepted. One can make an argument that opening umbrellas is permitted but that old debate has ended and it is accepted as forbidden.”
Agreed
“Your great-uncle is a case in point. He wouldn’t turn the radio on. And timers are a way around the prohibition, assuming that it exists.”
Maybe not-there could be other problems in using a timer to turn a radio on-if I could use my clock radio alarm on Shabbos I would certainly more often make the shiur before schule-but it is my understanding one shouldn’t do that. I could be wrong.
“The kids know they are violating Shabbos. Finding an old permissible view to justify their actions will only cheapen halakhah in their eyes. It implies that they can do whatever they want and then find a justification somewhere to permit it. That’s not how you develop commitment to Judaism.”
Agreed
“Hirhurim on June 27, 2011 at 11:04 am
That, by the way, is why I refuse to wear the new tekheles, even out of doubt. I don’t want it de facto accepted until we are absolutely certain it is the real deal.”
I agree with the caveat not only certain that iti s the real deal but be generally accepted that is the proper thing to do.
Actually, I occasionally think about wearing the new techeiles, because the historical argument makes sense. But if I did so, I’d have to put it on a tallis with blue stripes, so that in case it’s wrong, it’s still the “lavan” for the garment.
Gil:
various responses
Mycroft:
“agreed, agreed”
Big surprise, a RWMO agrees with someone who consciously positions himself as a RWMO.
Mycroft is RWMO? I always considered him in the center.
What’s “the center”? I tend to group him with Steve rather than with Charlie, say. RHM tried to define “centrist” a few months ago, and basically came up with “RWMO”. Anyway, each of us is always “the center” to ourselves, the ones to our left are apikorsim, the ones to our right are fanatics.
That your Web persona has been decidedly RWMO, and you think of mycroft as “the center”, well, it indicates general agreement, no?
I consider Mycroft to my left, which is why I said he was center.