[Avodah] Feeding Your Baby In A Bathroom?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:04:06AM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
> Rav Aharon Yehuda HaLevi Grossman was asked (V'Darashta VChakarta  
> 4:42:7)...
> First, the infant is too young for chinuch to apply.  Second, the food 
> does not go through the bathroom, as it goes straight from the mother to 
> the baby. Third, our bathrooms our not like the bathrooms discussed in 
> halacha, since the system we use keeps them clean from unclean things.  
> Last, because of the need for tznius there is reason to be lenient.

We discussed our bathrooms before. There is a machloqes at to whether
today's bathrooms are a beis hakisei or no better than the persian
bathrooms of their times. The other tzad also notes that there are
restrictions on what one does in the outer rooms of a bathhouse. We
aren't just concerned about smell, we also take into account the concept
of what the room is used for.

See R' Ari Z. Zivotofsky's RJJ Journal article at
<http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/halacha_modern_plumbing.pdf>

-Micha

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