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

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 30/10/16 16:23, via Avodah wrote:
> Don't Lubavitcher kohanim go to the cemetery wearing some kind of a
> box?  Why wouldn't being in an enclosed airplane be the same thing?  Not
> answering the question, just asking it.

Tum'ah does not go sideways, just up and down.  Kohanim are not allowed 
within four amos of an unfenced grave, lest they step over it, but if 
there's a fence between them and the grave they can go right up to it. 
Thus a kohen may walk in a cemetery if he is carrying a fence around 
himself that separates him from the graves he passes between.  He may 
also walk inside a human fence, consisting of people surrounding him and 
walking with him in the middle. That's what they used to do before they 
came up with the boxes.  (Now there's a fenced path to the Ohel, so such 
methods are no longer needed.)

(a human fence also works on Shabbos, so long as the people don't know 
they're being assembled for that purpose.  Once they're all in position 
they can be informed that they are now a fence creating a reshus 
hayochid in the middle, and could they please all walk in lockstep so 
the person in the middle can carry.)



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