[Avodah] mechitza

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

RZS:
> >> I don't understand this.  Even if there's no chiyuv, what's wrong
> with
> >> taking out a sefer?  Even on stam a Wednesday, with no mitzvah
> >> whatsoever, can't one take out a sefer torah just to learn chumash
> from
> >> it?
R' Michael Kopinsky wrote:
> > To learn chumash, yes.  To hold a k'rias hatorah b'tzibbur, many
> poskim
> > hold not.
R' ZS: 
> On what grounds?  At the very least, it *is* limmud hatorah, isn't it?
> How does the presence of an audience make it worse?

Someone very kindly sent me off-list a scan of She'eilas Aharon's Teshuva on
the matter, where he concludes, "Mikol Hanal Nireh She'ein Laasos Milsa
Chadata Ki Hai L'hotzi Sefer Torah B'shvil L'hasmia Parashah Zu L'nashim
She'karov Lihiyos Bizayon HaTorah." The She'eilas Aharon is a Rav in
Philadelphia, IIRC, his name is R' Felder. I can send the scan to anyone
interested. (If you have the She'ilas Aharon, it's Siman 34.) 

KT,
MYG