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Living the Halachic Process Volume V Living the Halachic Process Volume V LIVING THE HALACHIC PROCESS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE MODERN JEW Volume V Answer to Queries sent to the ERETZ HEMDAH INSTITUTE Headed by Rabbi Yosef Carmel Rabbi Moshe Ehrenreich by Rabbi Daniel Mann Living the Halachic Process, Vol. V Eretz Hemdah Institute © Eretz Hemdah Institute 2018 Additional copies of this book and companion source sheets for the questions in the book are available at Eretz Hemdah: 2 Brurya St. P.O.B 8178 Jerusalem 9108101 Isrel (972-2) 537-1485 fax (972-2) 537-9626 [email protected] www.eretzhemdah.org EDITORS: Rabbi Dr. Jonah Mann, Rabbi Menachem Jacobowitz, Rabbi Daniel Rosenfeld COPY EDITOR: Meira Mintz TYPESETTING & BOOK DESIGN: Rut Saadon COVER DESIGN: Rut Saadon with help from Creativejatin - Freepik.com הו"ל בהשתתפות המשרד לענייני דתות All rights reserved. However, since the purpose of this publication is educational, the copyright holder permits the limited reproduction of sections of this book for non-commercial educational purposes. ISBN 978-965-436-035-7, hardcover Printed in Israel The learning in this book is dedicated in loving memory and le'iluy neshama of the beloved friend of Eretz Hemdah Mr. Alfred S. Friedman who loved Torah, respected its scholars and was a man of many good deeds and chessed. In Honor of Rabbi Daniel Mann from the families of Roger & Rebecca Fine Milltown, New Jersey & Rabbi David and Dr. Julie Fine Modiin, Israel In loving memory of the Almosnino, Aljoya and Sabetai families, A”H who perished in the Holocaust. May their souls be blessed and counted among the righteous. Eli and Rebecca Almo Seattle, Washington לע"נ הרב משה צבי פולין נשיא התאחדות הרבנים דאמריקה רב בקהילות שייאן ויומינג, לואיוויל קנטקי, סינט לואיס מיזורי, וברוקלין ניו יורק מחנך, מרביץ תורה ברבים ומופת בכל הליכותיו מקים משפחה לתפארת מעמודי התווך של מפעל התשובות של ארץ חמדה מוקדש על ידי אשתו וכל בני המשפחה In Memory of our Beloved Parents Leonard and Molly Naider Joseph and Belle Serle May your memories serve as a blessing for your family and Klal Yisrael. Your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all miss you very much. Anita and Fred Naider In tribute to Rav Daniel Mann and in loving memory of our grandparents Debby and Max Sachs Chaim Hirsch and Rachel Leah Mann Dedicated to the memory of Leah and Rabbi Jacob Mann הרב יעקב ולאה מן ז"ל Quincy, Mass. Miriam and Abraham Roseman אברהם אייזיק ומרים רוזמן ז"ל Kew Gardens Hills, New York Foreword When Moshe was commanded to build the Mishkan, he was told: “You shall make bars out of shittim wood; five [of them] for the beams of one of the sides of the Mishkan” (Shemot 26:26). The bars provided stability for each of the sides of the Mishkan. They connected the tens of beams and turned them into one wall. This is the way to build a Sanctuary for holiness. While every beam is holy in its own right, you have a structure of holiness only when all the beams are connected by the bars. Then there is even room for a miracle, with the central bar connecting all of the sides of the Mishkan, turning them into one. We have the great privilege to publish the fifth volume of Living the Halachic Process. This provides a window in English to the work of our Ask the Rabbi project. This runs parallel to our Responsa Project in Hebrew, based on which we have published the BeMareh HaBazak series. Rav Dayan Daniel Mann, a graduate of Yeshiva University and one of Eretz Hemdah’s first graduates, has merited being a most significant part of this critical project. The Ask the Rabbi project serves mainly the Jewish communities of the Diaspora, and indeed from wherever each Jew reaches us. Rabbi Mann’s responsa excel in their clarity, their strong connection to the sources from the times of Chazal to the great contemporary poskim, the sensitivity they display, and the wonderful balance which he consistently succeeds in inserting into each answer. This is what makes the Torah a “Torah of life”! This special style is what has made the Living the Halachic Process series popular, even among Torah teachers, many of whom use these questions and answers as a platform to teach the “Torah of life” in an interesting way. This sanctifies HaShem’s Name, makes the Torah beloved to many, and draws people toward our Father in the Heaven. xiii LIVING THE HALACHIC PROCESS We wish Rabbi Daniel Mann and his wife, Natanya, and their dear parents, continued nachat with health, together with all of their descendants. May they have many more years involved in the teaching and spreading of Torah, in a manner that all who see will announce, “Fortunate are those who gave birth to him.” We wish him continued success in finding the “bars” that connect all the details of the Torah into one cohesive structure that serves as a “Mishkan” for the Divine Presence and a focal point of sanctity. The administration of the OU (Orthodox Union), and especially Rabbi Menachem Genack, head of their Kashrut Division, have been important partners in enabling us to provide answers in English to Jews throughout the world. Phil Chernofsky has helped present this resource to the broader community. We take this opportunity to thank Rabbi Genack and the members of his important organization for this partnership. With Torah blessings, HaRav Moshe Ehrenreich HaRav Yosef Carmel Deans of the Eretz Hemdah Institute xiv Preface The questions and answers found in this volume are taken from the files of our responsa service and our weekly parasha sheets from 5771-5775. In the preface to vol. IV, I wrote about how the world of Halacha had changed since the beginning of this project. In this preface, I would like to discuss how the helpfulness of this project has developed over the years, and how we are advancing that trend in this volume. Let us start with some background. When the first volume of Living the Halachic Process came out, I professed that its intended contribution was in exposing people to the process of coming to halachic rulings and hopefully increasing an appreciation of that process. Handbooks regarding Jewish practice are instructive, but it is hard for them to be eye- opening. We hope that we succeeded in that vein. With only a hundred plus questions discussed, and the subject matter varying greatly, even if each question raised several pertinent points, the volume was not able to provide a tremendous amount of information on any subject. At that point, if someone had a question about a certain topic and wanted to see how we handled it, he would have been unlikely to have found the answer in Living the Halachic Process, or on our website’s Ask the Rabbi search engine, for that matter. However, we recently started realizing that times had changed. With the publication of vol. V, we are approaching 600 questions answered in Living the Halachic Process, with these and several hundred more appearing on our website. We find that increasingly more new questions that come in have been addressed fully, or at least partially, in our books. This is coupled with the increasing awareness of the Torah-interested public that the halachic writing of Eretz Hemdah, with its combination of authentic scholarship along with Torah-based common sense and normalcy, resonates with many people. This not only provides a good feeling but also xv LIVING THE HALACHIC PROCESS an impetus to make our writings a more user-friendly source of answers to the public’s questions. Therefore, the chiddush (new feature) in this volume is an extensive index for the first five volumes of Living the Halachic Process. The index organizes the responses into topic by alphabet. Additionally, it lists responses in which key terms appear prominently and even features a thematic index for noteworthy concepts that arise. We hope this will enable the interested reader to explore entire topics and even halachic trends and approaches, from which we believe much can be learned. It is always a pleasant obligation to thank those who have helped make this volume, in its present form, a reality. While I have authored all the answers found in Living the Halachic Process, I have done so, not as an individual project, but as a member of the staff of Eretz Hemdah, to whom the great majority of these questions were sent for the institute’s ruling. As always, this project of Eretz Hemdah was initiated and supervised by its deans, Rav Moshe Ehrenreich and Rav Yosef Carmel, in keeping with the spirit and the guidance provided by our founding president and mentor, HaGaon HaRav Shaul Yisraeli, zecher tzaddik livracha. Many of the questions and answers were discussed with our deans, especially when I was unsure whether my ruling or presentation captured the approach and spirit of Eretz Hemdah. That being said, I must caution that due to the fact that this book is not written in their native tongue, the deans did not review this work word for word. Due to this and due to the great volume of writing and responsa that we have produced, I cannot give an assurance that everything in this volume represents the institute’s official position. To bring the literary quality of this book up to standard, I was privileged to once again receive the editing services of avi mori (my father/teacher), Rabbi Dr. Jonah Mann. His great dedication to every phrase and word of the book, with the encouragement and help of imi morati, Tirtza Mann, never ceases to inspire me, even during this sixth collaboration.
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