Gaon: I don’t remember you being in the room when Reb Hillel David told this to me. As you may know, not every psak made it to the igros Moshe. Just because you never heard it doesn’t mean an oral interpretation was not given. As an example it doesn’t state in the Igros Moshe that a vegetable peeler can be used on Shabbos but Reb S.B. Cohen in his sefer the Shabbos kitchen page 104 quotes R’ Reuvain that his father held it is a knife. We do know that not every psak is written in the igros Moshe. Rabbi Ribiat says the same thing in his footnote that he has heard that R Moshe says you can use the peeler but it is not in the Igros Moshe.
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