e-TiM: Online Program
e-Tim: Electricity and Shabbat: The Views of Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch
Opening the Door: Electricity, Shabbat and Modernity
Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, the outstanding Religious Zionist gadol and Rosh Yeshiva, is well known for having permitted hotel keycards and automatic doors on Shabbat. On e of his leading students, Rabbi Dr. Dror Fixler, will discuss with Dr. Marc Shapiro Rabbi Rabinovitch's unique approach to electricity on Shabbat and if the ubiquity of modern technology will of necessity lead to the adoption of halakhic leniencies unthinkable in the past.
