Ten Minute Halacha - Havdalah (and Other Mitzvos) Through a Microphone (or Telephone)

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May 10 2016
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Series: Ten Minute Halacha

Venue: Yeshivat Lev Shlomo (Woodmere, NY) Yeshivat Lev Shlomo (Woodmere, NY)

Collections: R' Lebowitz Ten Minute Halacha: Technology

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    1. Title: Amen over the Telephone
      Author: Shayna Michaels

      When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?

    2. Title: Amen over the Telephone
      Author: Shayna Michaels

      When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?

    3. Title: Rav Ovadia Yosef's shita on mircophones
      Author: Moshe Greenberg

      I would like to make one correction: in this shiur it says that Rav Ovadia Yosef holds that you can use a microphone for shomeia keoneh. However, in יחוה דעת חלק ג סימן נד he says explicitly that you're not yotzei (unless you can hear even without the microphone). The tshuva quoted (יביע אומר חלק ז אורח חיים סימן יח) was about hearing aids ("מכונת שמיעה חשמלית"), which Rav Ovadia compares to false teeth and glasses.

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