Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

It's to take off the jacket and change clothing and then wear a different one, you know, and send it to the cleaners.

Honestly, that's probably the best Eitzoh.

Once you're using water, it's for sure going to be Yasser, and it's a very complicated set of halachos when it comes to cleaning off the stain.

Question number eight, what is the halacha regarding standing or sitting when the arun is open but the Sefer Torah remains inside, or when a Torah is being held, carried to the bimor, danced with?

How should this be approached, especially given differing practices on Simchas Torah, e.g.

many women sitting?

So there's a Gemara in Makos, Tavchav Beis, the Gemara tells us, כמה טיפשם הם הבבלים העומדים במרי ספרי תורה ואין עומדים במרי תמריךה בים.

that the Bavliim are such silly people that they stand for a Seferi Torah.

So the Marek Yiddush in Laman Gimel asks about standing for a Seferi Torah, and it says, If you stand for people who learn Torah, all the more so you should stand for the Torah itself.

So a lot of the Rishonim ask that it's a blatant steer in the two Sukyos.

Because in Kiddushin it seems that the value of standing for a Torah is more than the value of standing for a Talmud Chacham.

Because it's the Chomer side of the Kalvachomer.

But in Makos it seems that the opposite.

That it's absurd to stand for the Torah and not for the Talmud Chacham.

Which implies that it's at least as much if not more reason to stand for the Talmud Chacham.

So the Rishon Dam answer that the Gemara and Kedushin is an accurate reflection of which one is more Chomer than the other.

It is more Mestaver to stand for a Torah.

But the mechanics of the Kalv Chomer are that the Melamed is the Din of Tamal Chacham since it's an explicit Pasuk.

meaning it may be more mistaber to stand for a Torah, but it's more explicit in Chumash that you stand for a Talmud Chacham, and the Lamed is the Torah, so it's foolishness to take the din of the Lamed and ignore the din of the Melamed.

So there are many raya's to this idea, but it emerges that according to the Rambam,