Modesty During Tashmish
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- It is forbidden to have tashmish in a room with a Sefer Torah, Tefillin, or Mezuzot.[1] A Sefer Torah should be moved to another room and if that is impossible one should set up a wall of ten tefachim in front of the Sefer Torah. However, it is insufficient to place the Sefer Torah in a double covering.[2]
- The Tefillin should be moved to another room or covered with a double covering. One of the covers can't be the regular covering for it.[3]
- If there is a mezuzah in the room it should be covered.[4]
- It is forbidden to have tashmish in a room with printed sefarim. Some poskim permit it if they’re covered with one covering while others require two coverings.[5]
- It is permitted to have tashmish in a room with tashmishei kedusha or tashmishei mitzvah.[6]
Sources
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch YD 282:8, Shulchan Aruch OC 40:2, Magen Avraham 40:2
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch YD 282:8
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch OC 40:2
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 40:7 writes that a mezuzah in a room needs to be covered with a double cover one of which isn’t the coverings designated for it. Ginzei Hakodesh 4:14 agrees.
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 40:7 writes that sefarim require a double covering. Regarding printed sefarim, Ginzei Hakodesh 4:13 p. 63 quotes Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg and Rav Nissim Karelitz as being lenient with one covering for printed sefarim. On the other hand, he quotes Rav Elyashiv and Rav Wosner as being strict.
- ↑ Ginzei Hakodesh 4:15 citing Avnei Nezer 376:16
