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==Avoiding Tevila by Making them Ownerless== | |||
#A person should not make his utensils ownerless to avoid the mitzvah of tevilat kelim. In an extenuating circumstance some poskim allow making it ownerless in front of 3 people to use it without tevila. When a person reacquires it he should do tevila with a bracha.<ref>Tevilat Kelim 3:8 and 4:19. In ch. 3 fnt. 14 he cites Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Mishna Halachot 4:107 that in extenuating circumstance it is permitted to make it ownerless and use it without tevila. [http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-1-Mar-24-2020.pdf Rav Hershel Schachter (Teshuva dated 28 Adar 5780 p. 1)] applied this solution during covid and the mikvah's were closed.</ref> | |||
==A Convert’s Obligation in Tevilat Kelim== | ==A Convert’s Obligation in Tevilat Kelim== | ||
# There is a mitzvah to dip in a mikveh food utensils that one buys from a non-Jew called [[Tevilat Kelim]]. An interesting case arises when a non-Jew converts to Judaism. Are his pots, pans, and silverware considered as though they were acquired from a non-Jew, requiring [[Tevilat Kelim]]? Or, perhaps the mitzvah only applies when buying utensils and not when the utensils remain in the same domain. | # There is a mitzvah to dip in a mikveh food utensils that one buys from a non-Jew called [[Tevilat Kelim]]. An interesting case arises when a non-Jew converts to Judaism. Are his pots, pans, and silverware considered as though they were acquired from a non-Jew, requiring [[Tevilat Kelim]]? Or, perhaps the mitzvah only applies when buying utensils and not when the utensils remain in the same domain. | ||
# Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer YD 7:8) entertains the possibility of exempting a convert from [[Tevilat Kelim]] because this situation isn’t similar to the original story of Bnei Yisrael acquiring utensils from Midyan in which the utensils changed domains and not that the owners have undergone a transformation. Rav Wosner in Shevet HaLevi (4:92:2) disagrees and says that even though the form of [[acquisition]] isn’t identical to the original story, the fundamental transfer from a secular domain to one of [[kedusha]] is applicable to a convert. Interestingly, the Sochachover Rebbe (cited by Yabia Omer) argued that the convert’s undergoing of conversion is sufficient to also convert his utensils and exempt them from any obligation of [[Tevilat Kelim]]. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Grossnass (Lev Aryeh Siman 25) recommends doing tevilat kelim without a bracha because of the dispute. | # Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer YD 7:8) entertains the possibility of exempting a convert from [[Tevilat Kelim]] because this situation isn’t similar to the original story of Bnei Yisrael acquiring utensils from Midyan in which the utensils changed domains and not that the owners have undergone a transformation. Rav Wosner in Shevet HaLevi (4:92:2) disagrees and says that even though the form of [[acquisition]] isn’t identical to the original story, the fundamental transfer from a secular domain to one of [[kedusha]] is applicable to a convert. Interestingly, the Sochachover Rebbe (cited by Yabia Omer) argued that the convert’s undergoing of conversion is sufficient to also convert his utensils and exempt them from any obligation of [[Tevilat Kelim]]. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Grossnass (Lev Aryeh Siman 25) recommends doing tevilat kelim without a bracha because of the dispute. | ||
==If One Didn't Immerse a Utensil== | ==If One Didn't Immerse a Utensil== |