Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

You know, or maybe there's some sort of hater for the, when that's good for the Kavira Torah to get as many people involved as possible, and it's just not reasonable that you're going to go for two hours of dancing and people are not going to sit once the entire time.

There is a hater that if you're carrying a Torah, that you could sit with the Torah.

A lot of times they'll have someone sitting with the Torah, and then they make the Mishaberuch for the Chayilim or something, so that people stand up for the Mishaberuch for the Chayilim.

That's probably not correct.

The Torah should not have to stand for anything.

So if you're holding the Torah, you stay seated, even if it's a type of thing where everybody else is standing up.

Okay, question number nine.

Since Sikha B'teila is prohibited in the Beis Medrash, should someone who knows that they will likely engage in idle conversation refrain from learning there altogether?

That sounds like an OCD kind of question.

I don't mean that in a derogatory or mocking kind of way.

I mean that in...

really a clinical way, meaning if a person's going to do something that is unheard of, that's against, you know, centuries of precedent, that we learn in Batei Medrash.

People have been battling for a long, long time.

We learn in Batei Medrash.

A person's going to say that they can't learn in the Bais Medrash because they're so nervous that they might be engaging in Sikha B'teila.

I don't know, it doesn't sound like a healthy...

a healthy question.

What's the heter that we engage in Sikha B'tela sometimes, even in a Beis HaKnesset, Beis Medrash?

So the Archa Shulchan writes in some Kofnan Aleph, you know, that he raises the question of why people are involved in Sikha B'tela, even not in a shtibel where it's, where it has Kedusha's Beis HaKnesset.

This is not talking about talking in davening, right?