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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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4128 total appearances

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Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Rabbi Willig does it for rabbis.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

for i think uh a national council of young israel for for rabbis he does it once a month i think and i was listening to this month and he was asked that shailen he said it is because the guy who runs the business had to invest in the equipment that's necessary the shovels the snow plows whatever it is that he's using so that is so okay so i was wrong um anyway what about snowman so for two there are two parts of the question first of all is snow moxa

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So the Mishnah Brewer says that rainwater is not muktza, based on the Gemara Ne'erivin, and the Shirer Shabbos therefore says, why should snow be any different?

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So snow isn't muktza.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

However, Rabbi Eider has in his Sefer, he quotes a footnote from Rav Moshe, and later it was a tshuva printed in the 8th volume of the Gris Moshe, that Rav Moshe holds that snow is muktza, that it's muktza machmas gufo, Rav Aaron Silver, my rabbi,

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

from Karim Biavena, pointed out that the footnote in Rabbi Eider Sefer, at least in the original version on snow, was footnote Shin Lamed Gimel, footnote Sheleg.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So anyway, that's what they quote from Ramosha.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

I just saw Rabbi Eliezer Krohn last night at my grandnephew's bris, and he told me, because he's a Mahal, and he told me,

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

that he had mentioned Ramesha holds its snow is Muktsa, and someone said to him, no, you can't trust what it says in that tshuva, the 8th volume, this and that, and Ramesha holds snow is not Muktsa.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So I told him that sometimes people heard things from Rav Moshe that are against what it says in the Yigris Moshe.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Rav Moshe has a long tshuva where he explains why.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

why toilet paper and tissues are not Makabal Tumah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And I heard from Rabbi First from Chicago that he remembers Rav Moshe looking at Maros that were on toilet paper.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Sometimes it's an interesting topic of when and why Rav Moshe would go against what he writes in Negros Moshe.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

But that's the first issue.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Let's assume it's not Mukta.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Either not like Rav Moshe or maybe Rav Moshe didn't really hold that it's Mukta.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Let's assume it's not Mukta.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

It's still going to be Yasser because taking...