The Great Chashmal Controversy: An Electrifying Discussion!

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

first two points I want to say are what we're not going to be discussing. What we're not going to be discussing is the issue of turning on electric things on Shabas. Right? The word kashmal means electricity in modern Hebrew. And one controversy might be whether turning on something electric on Shabas you know is user or what exactly the is might be there's a whole controversy about that whether it's according to the or it's m according to some other orid which is only or that's a other orid which is only or that's a whole discussion um but we're not going to be discussing that Imam am working on a book with a physicist Dr. Uri on that exact topic. So that's a whole interesting discussion. Dr. Uri is a a physicist and inventor he invented a certain type of laser that's used in fiber optic communications. So that's a very interesting topic but not our topic for tonight. The other possible controversy that you might be thinking of is the controversy of using electricity that was generated on Shabas or or Yamv especially by people who are mal Shabas whether you're allowed to you know enjoy benefit from that. You know if if the electric company is making electricity and you're using the lights or the air conditioner, you know, is that allowed? Is that problematic? You know, some people are very mocked about it. They have private generators so that they don't use electricity from the from the electric company. That's also what we're not going to be talking about. Okay. So, what is the Kashmal controversy that we are going to be talking about? We're going to be talking about specifically the word kashmal and the

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