Q&A: Electricity on the Sabbath as a rabbinic prohibition
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Electricity on the Sabbath as a rabbinic prohibition
Question
According to the opinions that electricity on the Sabbath is only a rabbinic prohibition, which rabbinic prohibition is involved?
How did they add another prohibition not based on something already existing?
I couldn’t understand what the halakhic source is for this rabbinic prohibition.
Answer
According to most approaches that follow the Beit Yitzhak, this is the prohibition of creating something new (generating a current).