[Avodah] Hilchos BINGO

[Simon Montagu]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> R Chanoch Bloom asked on Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 9:02am EDT:
> : Isn't gambling (i.e. Bingo) assur according to the Maran Beit Yosef?
>
> Moreso than the commmonplace Chinese Auction? Or buying a lottery
> ticket? Or dreidl of kvitlach paid for money?


I'm fairly sure the BY would say all those were asur also. See
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/michlol/pais.htm for a bunch of
references.

I found that page by googling for "Ovadia Yosef Mif`al Hapayis", since I
remember ROY's psak from some years ago that buying lottery tickets is asur.
The page mentions the psak without a reference, and I couldn't find one
elsewhere (http://www.torahmitzion.org/pub/parsha/tazria-heb.doc gives
Yabia` Omer 6, HM 7, but my copy only has 6 teshuvot in HM, so I'm not sure
if there is a later edition or there is a typo in the reference).
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