Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

So bottom line is, you know, and there's also discussion about a pasuk that was split by Ezekiel Katan.

Okay, so bottom line is that it is a halacha, but it's not quoted in the poskim, and even the way it's quoted in the gemara, there is wiggle room when it's low efshar.

So the fact that it's, you know...

a little more frequently violated, is not like the most surprising thing.

It's like, should we be better about it?

Maybe, maybe.

When the new Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel was here a little while ago, he said that someone had

had asked, how come, even in the most Haredi weddings, they have sitting by the chuppah, the men on one side, the women on the other side, no mechitza, no mechitza at the chuppah.

So they asked Rav Eliashev, shouldn't we insist that there be a mechitza at the chuppah?

So Rav Eliashev said, yeah, yeah, when you solve every other problem in Judaism, you should start working on that.

meaning some problems need immediate attention, other problems maybe not to work on right now.

Okay, question number six.

If you see the Golden Dome in Jerusalem from a terrace, but only the top, not the base of Har Habayis, do you have to do kriya?

So this is an interesting discussion.

We know that you're supposed to tear kriya out,

that when you see the Old City of Yerushalayim, and then when you see the and then you tear Kriya, and then when you see the and then you tear Kriya again, so the question whether we should still tear Kriya on Yerushalayim, it's so built up, and there's so much Torah, and there's Shuls, and there's

Bnei Yeshiva and so many Jews.

And so that's a machlokas where Moshe holds that we no longer tear kriya on the Old City.

It's under Jewish government, you know, all of that.

Others say, come on, there are churches there, there are mosques there.