[Avodah] Can a Sefer Torah Be Donated or Lent to a Reform Temple?
Prof. Levine
llevine at stevens.edu
Tue Feb 1 06:53:09 PST 2011
I am sure that anyone who subscribes to RSRH's Austritt will answer a
resounding "No!" to this question.
Many years ago I asked Rav Shimon Schwab, ZT"L, about my speaking in
a Conservative temple. Rav Schwab was a very wise man and knew me
somewhat. He replied, "I will not pasken for you. I hold that one is
not even allowed to set foot in such a place. Anything that you do
like this strengthens them, and one should not be doing this. I know
that Reb Moshe permits Orthodox people to teach in the talmud Torahs
of Reform and Conservative temples. I do not."
Given this, I have no doubt that if he were here for us to ask him
the would say that one should not lend or donate anything to a Reform
temple. YL
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