Wine Pressed by One Suspected of Public Shabbos Desecration

Description

A Jew pressed grapes on a night when two witnesses claimed Shabbos had already begun while two others claimed it had not, raising the question of whether the wine is yayin nesech. The Chasam Sofer rules leniently, marshaling seven independent arguments, including the uncertain factual basis, the requirement of public desecration before ten Jews, and that the yayin nesech prohibition in such cases is a mere rabbinic penalty rather than rooted in the core concerns of intermarriage or idolatry.