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==Avoiding Tevila | ==Avoiding Tevila== | ||
#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 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> | ||
# One can avoid the requirement to immerse a utensil by having it disassembled and reassembled professionally by a Jew. <ref> Teshuvot VeHanhagot 1:450; Ach Tov VaHessed, Year 5783, page 205 </ref> | |||
# If an item is too big or will be ruined by immersion then one can avoid the requirement to immerse a utensil by giving the utensil to a non-Jew as a gift with a formal acquisition procedure in front of witnesses and then borrowing it back. <ref> S"A 323:7, S"A 120:16; Horaa Berura 100:77; Ach Tov VaHessed, Year 5783, page 205 </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. | ||
