Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

So I put together a group of wealthy relatives, and they all agree that they all have Sefer Torah already.

So they all agree that this will be my Sefer Torah, and they want to do this for me.

They want to do this for me, that I should be able to have a Sefer Torah.

So I contribute $10,000, and a bunch of other people contribute $10,000 also, and I'm the one that goes home with the Sefer Torah.

So I would think that you are Yotze in such a case.

meaning that's like buying a Sefer Torah.

I think that's the understanding of a raffle, that you know somebody's going to go home with it, and therefore you're all agreeing that we're all paying for it, and somebody's going to go home with it.

My other argument was that the difference between yarshening a Sefer Torah where you're not Yotze, versus winning a Sefer Torah in a raffle, is that that Sefer Torah that you yarshened was somebody else's mitzvah of Ksiva Sefer Torah, meaning that Sefer Torah was written by your father before he died, for his mitzvah of Ksiva Sefer Torah.

So the whole idea that if you're Yorish, you need to write your own is because you need to do your mitzvah of Ksiva Sefer Torah.

But if a Sefer Torah is written for whoever wins the raffle, it's like a B'rera type of situation, for whoever wins the raffle.

So I still think I'm right.

I don't know.

That it might be like buying a Sefer Torah.

Anyway, just a little follow-up from last week.

But I didn't even quote what it says in Shulchan Aruch last week.

I was just quoting the Rishonim.

So it's important to know what it says in Shulchan Aruch.

And, you know, always appreciate feedback, especially from Tamir Chacham of Rabbi Mendelitz's caliber.

Okay, question number one.

Many homes now have digital picture frames or screens that display rotating photos, and sometimes headlines or sports scores is permitted for such screens to be on during Shabbos.