לא תעשון אתי
שמות כ:כ
The Gemoro
(Avodah Zarah 53a) and Shulchan
Aruch (Y.D. 141-8)
says:
“You are not allowed to replicate the Shulchan and Menorah etc. of the Bais Hamikdash. The type of metal or size doesn't matter. You may not make a seven-branch
Menorah".
Reb Akiva Eiger's
son in law (R.
Shmuel Birnbaum zt"l) writes that his
Shver had a silver Judenstern Shabbos lamp with seven spouts. He
took it to a silversmith who with great difficulty managed to add
on an additional spout.
Reb Akiva Eiger
seems to hold like the Poskim* that since we
are dealing
with an Issur De'orysa (לא תעשון אתי) therefore
all seven
branch Menoras are forbidden, regardless of the
shape (cups
are in a straight line or in a circle etc.)
The Chasam
Sofer (Toras Moshe Parshas Yisro) writes (based on a Tosfos
Yoma 54b) :
" Because we hold wooden tables would be Posul in the Bais Hamikdosh therefore, we may make and have wooden tables in our homes.
However,
metal tables regardless of size shape or type of metal
are kosher B'dieved in the Bais Hamikdash, therefore,
all metal tables may not be made for personal
use."
The
Chasam Sofer continues that he sees no Heter for the Matzoh
bakery to have copper (metal) tables.
Most
commercial kitchens in Shuls, Yeshivos, etc.
have
today stainless steel tables.
Also,
many people have metal tables lawn furniture etc.
According to the
Chasam Sofer, there is no Heter for it.
The Darkei Teshuva
(Y.D. 141-8) argues on the Chasam Sofer he writes:
" We
find the Gemoro (Shabbos119a)
R.
Chiya b Aba praised the Ba’al Habayis who brought in
L’kovod
Shabbos a golden table. Had it been assur to
make he
would not have praised him.
*Bchor Shor- Pischei teshuva
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Louis René Beres said:
ReplyDelete“For Hamas, the Israeli enemy is
more than just a geo-strategic opponent.
It is, rather, a delegated religious
target slated for annihilation, one
whose obligatory and violent elimination
will confer blessedly eternal life
upon the Islamic sacrificer”.
SOURCE:
Radical Islam: Terrorism as Power Over Death
by Louis René Beres, 2019 January 3
www.algemeiner.com/2019/01/03/radical-islam-terrorism-as-power-over-death/