[Avodah] Bizayon HaMeis

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R"n Toby Katz wrote:
> But let us not kid ourselves that a C or R tahara is a tahara,
> esp when the members are not Jewish

and R' Zev Sero responded:
> Is that the case, though?  Does it matter, bediavad, who did
> the tahara? If it could be done by a robot, or by RHS's
> proverbial kesuba-reading parrot, would it matter?

Kesuba-reading is a mere minhag. An even better example would be Tevilas Kelim, which is not only a Mitzvah D'oraisa, but it is one which we make a bracha on -- and it *CAN* be done by a robot (presuming that we can be sure the robot did it properly). [see YD 120:15]

Akiva Miller


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