[Avodah] shofar & guf naki

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Daniel Eidensohn asked:
> Does the mitzva of hearing shofar require guf naki. This
> question involves someone with colitis. If it doesn't can
> one fulfill it in a bathroom?

Rac Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (in Halichos Shlomo 2:17) says this: "One who hears the sound of the shofar in a place which is not clean, if there's no possiblity of hearing it afterward elsewhere, he is allowed (reshai) to have kavana to be yotzay with this hearing."

>From the lengthy footnotes, it seems that the problem is that having kavana for the mitzva is a form of thinking divrei Torah.

Akiva Miller