Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Okay, everybody, welcome back to another week of Answering Yerushalayim.

And once again, this is L'Chosra For Shalema, for Rabbi Jonathan Cohn, Yehonasan Eitan, Ben Basheva, Bracha, Yishlava For Shalema, B'Soch, Shar Chol Yisrael, and we thank him so, so much for arranging this year, each and every week, arranging all the questions.

and organizing them.

I want to start with a follow-up from last week.

You know, I do get feedback every now and then from some of the shaylas that we discussed.

So last week we discussed if a person wins a raffle for a Sefer Torah.

And I had said that l'chara depends on what the

on what the nature of the mitzvah of ksiva sefer Torah is.

Is it the mitzvah of ksiva sefer Torah, or a mitzvah to have the sefer Torah?

They pointed out that it's a machlok esri shonim.

It is explicit in the Gemara, and in the Shulchan Orch, in Simmon, Ayin, Resh, Tzefal, and Yerudea, that if a person is Yoresh, a sefer Torah, that they're for sure not Yotze, the mitzvah.

The Ramah then adds that if you commission a Sefer Torah to be written, or buy a puzzle of Sefer Torah and repair it, then you get credit for writing it.

However, then there's something in between.

If a person buys a kosher of Sefer Torah, so he didn't fix the Sefer Torah, he didn't commission the Sefer Torah, but nor did he yarsh in the Sefer Torah.

He bought a Sefer Torah that was already in existence, and he bought it.

So the Ramah says you're grabbing a mitzvah minashuk and you're a night yotzeh.

So the grah says, no, chotev mitzvah minashuk means you are yotzeh.

Machlok es ramah in the grah whether you're yotzeh when you buy a kosher Sefer Torah.

So we paskin that buying a Sefer Torah, most poskin from what I understand, do paskin like the grah that if you buy a Sefer Torah that that does qualify as something.

Certainly commissioning a Sefer Torah like the Ramah we paskin is fulfillment of the mitzvah.