[Avodah] R' Nissim Karelitz's Beis Din: Kohanim cannot fly from Ben Gurion

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 31/10/16 05:05, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote:

> There  were pictures on social media a year or two ago of kohanim
> sitting in a plane on the flight path to or from TLV wearing a sort of
> large cardboard carton. It eludes me how if this solves the problem the
> carpet on the floor and ulphostery on the seat of the plane do not.

I've seen pictures of a plastic bag, not a cardboard box.  A sealed keli 
(tzomid posil) blocks tum'ah.  The plane is not (according to most 
poskim); the bag is.


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