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From: R. Feldman
Subject: Open vs closed indicator registry
Date: 4 Tishrei 5783
Returning to this thread after some reflection over Shabbat.
R. Nachmani raises an interesting architectural question. The chair would note:
1. The indicators we have defined are those attested in classical sources. 2. They have survived because they encode observations valid across centuries and geographies. 3. Stars are visible everywhere. Markets close everywhere. Dogs bark everywhere.
Local indicators—the bakery, the mosque, the church bells—are valuable precisely because they are local. Would a specification that encoded them not need to encode the entire context in which they are meaningful?
We faced a similar question in the baseline thread. R. Halevi's concern about adopting frameworks applies here as well.
—Yaakov Feldman, Chair
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