[Avodah] rights of adopted children

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<RMF is one of the very few who permit it. >>
<<Did this somehow become an emotionally charged machloqes, like eruv for
some reason tends to? >>

I agree with Micha.  I again bring a list of prominent poskim who agree
with RMF so it certainly is not a solitary opinion. I would strongly argue
that in practice most people follow the lenient opinion.
The article I previously quoted brought those to disagreed and concluded
that one should check it out with his local rabbi. He certainly did not
dismiss the lenient opinion.


 Rav Moshe Feinstein (*Teshuvot Igrot Moshe *E.H.4:64:2), Rav Eliezer
Waldenburg (*Teshuvot Tzitz Eliezer*6:40:21), and Rav Chaim David
Halevi (*Teshuvot
Asei Lecha Rav *3:39) all rule that adoptive parents are permitted to
engage in Yichud with their adopted children since the Yetzer Hara is not
interested in such situations.  Rav Ovadia Yosef (see *Yalkut Yosef*,
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch p.975) is essentially lenient about this issue,
though he believes that it is preferable to adopt a girl so that the wife
who is home most of the time can shield her husband from Yichud.
Rav Nachum Rabinovitch (the prominent Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshivat Hesder
of Maaleh Adumim) is cited in Techumin 10:317 by Rav Azariah Berzon as
agreeing with the aforementioned Poskim who permit adoptive parents to have
Yichud with their adoptive children.  Rav Rabinovitch notes that Jews have
adopted children since time immemorial.
-- 
Eli Turkel
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