Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

They pointed out that it's a machlok esri shonim.

It is explicit in the Gemara, and in the Shulchan Orch, in Simmon, Ayin, Resh, Tzefal, and Yerudea, that if a person is Yoresh, a sefer Torah, that they're for sure not Yotze, the mitzvah.

The Ramah then adds that if you commission a Sefer Torah to be written, or buy a puzzle of Sefer Torah and repair it, then you get credit for writing it.

However, then there's something in between.

If a person buys a kosher of Sefer Torah, so he didn't fix the Sefer Torah, he didn't commission the Sefer Torah, but nor did he yarsh in the Sefer Torah.

He bought a Sefer Torah that was already in existence, and he bought it.

So the Ramah says you're grabbing a mitzvah minashuk and you're a night yotzeh.

So the grah says, no, chotev mitzvah minashuk means you are yotzeh.

Machlok es ramah in the grah whether you're yotzeh when you buy a kosher Sefer Torah.

So we paskin that buying a Sefer Torah, most poskin from what I understand, do paskin like the grah that if you buy a Sefer Torah that that does qualify as something.

Certainly commissioning a Sefer Torah like the Ramah we paskin is fulfillment of the mitzvah.

So after I mentioned this, I got feedback from a world-renowned sofer, Rav Uve Mendelowitz, a shlita, who said that he thought that when you win a Sefer Torah in a raffle, it's similar to inheriting a Sefer Torah, which is mefurish that you're not Yotze.

I don't know, I thought it was more similar to commissioning a Sefer Torah.

So he said, why do you think it's more similar to commissioning a Sefer Torah?

Because you're buying a ticket, and buying a ticket is like buying the Torah.

So he argued the fact that you bought a ticket is not the same as buying a Sefer Torah.

So I would just argue that everybody's buying a ticket.

So everyone's buying a ticket with the understanding that the winner is the ultimate buyer.

So let's say, you know, I can't afford, let's say a Sefer Torah costs $100,000.

and I can't afford all $100,000.