[Avodah] Dollar Bills In the Bathroom?

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=4955

It is not permissible to brings something with Hashem's name into a 
bathroom unless it is inside a double wrapped enclosure. What about a 
US dollar bill which says, "In G-d We Trust"? Must you leave your 
money outside or double bag it?

The Shevet HaKehosi (3:271) brings the Shach (YD 179:11) who says 
that you may erase Hashem's name if it is written in another 
language, such as the word
G-d. The Gilyon Maharshas adds that this is not the case if it is 
written in Ksav Ashuris. The Sdei Chemed says it is a machlokes 
whether we can erase Hashem's name written in foreign letters.

Even those who hold that erasing Hashem's name written in foreign 
letters is assur, it is only if it spells Hashem's name in Lashon 
HaKodesh and not the foreign word for it. If it is a foreign term in 
foreign letters than according to most poskim it is muttar to erase. 
The exception is Rav Yaakov Emden who forbids even this. However the 
source for Rav Yaakov Emden's issur is unclear and the Keses Sofer 
says that he may have meant only unnecessarily.

Furthermore says the Shevet HaKehosi the dollar bills are not written 
by anyone with any kavana for Shem Hashem, it is merely printed by a 
machine. Therefore he concludes that it has no Kedusha and may be 
taken into a bathroom, but if someone wants to be machmir, Tavo Alav Bracha.

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