Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

The Gemara K'subas, Tavkov Gimel, talks about how after Reb Yehuda Anassi died, he would come back and say Kiddush for his family on Friday nights.

So apparently they saw him, says the Chubas Mach Nachayim.

They probably enjoyed seeing him.

They were probably very happy.

to see him, but you're not allowed to get hana'a from a mace.

So how are they allowed to see him?

So he probably wasn't in physical form, but Machmechaim doesn't assume that way.

He just assumes that he came and they saw him and they were getting hana'a from a mace, but that the looking is not considered to be a legitimate form of hana'a.

So the Machmechaim suggests that maybe there's a chilik between

Illumination versus looking at the Isr, looking at the thing that is Asr Ba'ana'a.

That perhaps we possibly like the Bavli, that it was actually Asr for them to be Baruch Hitim, and enjoying the illumination of Hagadish would be Asr, but looking at something that's Asr Ba'ana'a, even if you enjoy looking at it, would maybe not be problematic when it comes to Yisra'i Ha'ana'a.

Where do you put looking at a leopard in the zoo?

What kind of hana'a do you get when people pay for admission to be able to look at these animals?

Is that called direct hana'a?

So maybe by that get there would not be called, you're looking at the thing that might be asaba'na'a, but it's not an inherent hana'a that you get.

It doesn't enable you to do anything or to accomplish anything.

It's just the looking itself.

So one might argue that that therefore is not considered anah.

This came up, Rabbi Bleich wrote an article about this, about whether looking at something is considered anah.

In 2007 there was an exhibition that was going around to different cities and it made a stop in New York of dead bodies.