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==Bringing a Sefer into the Bathroom== | ==Bringing a Sefer into the Bathroom== | ||
# If one needs to bring a sefer into a bathroom some poskim hold that two covers are necessary, while most hold that only one cover is necessary.<ref>Eliya Rabba 43:6 writes that if one needs to bring a sefer into the bathroom one needs to cover it with a double cover like we find by tefillin. Magen Avraham 43:14 argues that it is permitted as long as they're covered with one covering. Mishna Brurah 43:25 cites the dispute. Halacha Brurah 43:8 cites the Radvaz 3:513 as supporting the Magen Avraham.</ref> Today many poskim are lenient to bring a sefer into the bathroom even without a double covering.<ref>Halacha Brurah 43:8 is lenient like the Magen Avraham because anyway there are other factors to be lenient including the factor that a printed sefer might not have kedusha and our bathrooms might be considered a very clean bathroom in which there is no issue of bringing in a sefer. Yabia Omer YD 4:21:4 | # If one needs to bring a sefer into a bathroom some poskim hold that two covers are necessary, while most hold that only one cover is necessary.<ref>Eliya Rabba 43:6 writes that if one needs to bring a sefer into the bathroom one needs to cover it with a double cover like we find by tefillin. Magen Avraham 43:14 argues that it is permitted as long as they're covered with one covering. Mishna Brurah 43:25 cites the dispute. Halacha Brurah 43:8 cites the Radvaz 3:513 as supporting the Magen Avraham.</ref> Today many poskim are lenient to bring a sefer into the bathroom even without a double covering.<ref>Halacha Brurah 43:8 is lenient like the Magen Avraham because anyway there are other factors to be lenient including the factor that a printed sefer might not have kedusha and our bathrooms might be considered a very clean bathroom in which there is no issue of bringing in a sefer. Yabia Omer YD 4:21:4 and Tzitz Eliezer 11:5 are lenient to bring printed sefarim into a bathroom in one’s pocket since the pocket is one covering and the printed sefarim might have kedusha. Similarly, Maharsham 3:357 is lenient with one covering such as a pocket but just keeping a sefer in a see through covering is insufficient. [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=58 Machezeh Eliyahu 1:8:30 p. 58] is lenient and adds that anyway the pants pocket count as a double covering. Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:125 is strict for any sefer that has a name of Hashem. | ||
* Dirshu 43:20 quotes Ginzei Hakodesh ch. 4 no. 27 that Rav Sheinberg and Rav Karelitz are lenient while Rav Elyashiv and Rav Wosner are strict. In fact the quote is inaccurate. Ginzei Hakodesh is discussing having tashmish in a room with sefarim and regarding that discussion he quotes the above poskim. However, being that everyone agrees that a double covering is necessary for tashmish and many poskim hold only one covering is needed for a bathroom it is clear that the case of a bathroom is more lenient and it isn’t accurate to say that Rav Elyashiv and Rav Wosner are certainly strict.</ref> | * Dirshu 43:20 quotes Ginzei Hakodesh ch. 4 no. 27 that Rav Sheinberg and Rav Karelitz are lenient while Rav Elyashiv and Rav Wosner are strict. In fact the quote is inaccurate. Ginzei Hakodesh is discussing having tashmish in a room with sefarim and regarding that discussion he quotes the above poskim. However, being that everyone agrees that a double covering is necessary for tashmish and many poskim hold only one covering is needed for a bathroom it is clear that the case of a bathroom is more lenient and it isn’t accurate to say that Rav Elyashiv and Rav Wosner are certainly strict.</ref> | ||
==Changing in Front of a Sefer== | ==Changing in Front of a Sefer== | ||
# Many poskim say that it is forbidden to change a baby in front of a sefer since it is disrespectful to expose a sefer to the nakedness of a person. Similarly it is forbidden for an adult to change in a room where a sefer is exposed.<ref>Mishna Brurah 40:5-6, Shemirat Shabbat Kehillchata p. 293 24:33 in note writes that one shouldn't change a baby in front of a sefer. Ginzei Hakodesh p. 62 quotes Avnei Yishfeh 1:11:4 citing Rav Elyashiv who is strict to forbid changing a baby in front of a sefer unless it is difficult to avoid.</ref> Some poskim poskim are lenient about this issue for a child.<ref>Children in Halacha (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen p. 26) citing [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=41 Machezeh Eliyahu p. 41] regarding the nakedness of a child before sefarim. Regarding exposing the soiled diaper [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=47 Machezeh Eliyahu p. 47] is lenient.</ref> | # Many poskim say that it is forbidden to change a baby in front of a sefer since it is disrespectful to expose a sefer to the nakedness of a person. Similarly it is forbidden for an adult to change in a room where a sefer is exposed.<ref>Mishna Brurah 40:5-6, Shemirat Shabbat Kehillchata p. 293 24:33 in note writes that one shouldn't change a baby in front of a sefer. Ginzei Hakodesh p. 62 quotes Avnei Yishfeh 1:11:4 citing Rav Elyashiv who is strict to forbid changing a baby in front of a sefer unless it is difficult to avoid.</ref> Some poskim poskim are lenient about this issue for a child.<ref>Children in Halacha (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen p. 26) citing [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=41 Machezeh Eliyahu p. 41] regarding the nakedness of a child before sefarim. Regarding exposing the soiled diaper [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21547&pgnum=47 Machezeh Eliyahu p. 47] is lenient.</ref> | ||
