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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:
The Gemara seems to say that one is not allowed to live in the company of a Goy. Why did the Chachamim allow sechirus which seems to enable living with a Goy?
I think the Gemara means that a Rabim is not allowed to make themselves a Yachid and circumvent the necessity of S’chirus. This is the old Takanna. We can’t disallow living with a Goy, since people find themselves in all sorts of peculiar situations. Instead, we made it hard to do so as a way do discourage it, but we didn’t make it impossible.
This is the balance between discouraging something and punishing for it.