[Avodah] Zoom Seder

[Micha Berger]

 From http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/277764

I see two distinct conversations here:
- Leaving an audio-video program on for YT use. I notice Sepharadi names.
  ROY is more meiqil on things like passive element PA systems than
  Ashkenazim are. Relevent?
- Being yotzei berakhos, would answering be an amein yesoma, etc...

When it came to Zoom and Qaddish, RHS recently ruled that you aren't
joined into a minyan to permit the saying of Qaddish. But, in another
context, had 10 men gathered and someone else hears the Qaddish via the
internet, they may answer and he explicitly raised and rejected the
amein yesomah question. No worse than answering amein after the flag
was raised in the Great Synagogue of Alecandria.

-Micha

    IsraelNationalNews.com
    Halakhic ruling: 'Zoom' software can be used during Seder
    Arutz Sheva Staff , 24/03/20 23:33

    A group of rabbis, including Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, head of
    Jerusalem's rabbinical court, the Chief of Rabbi of Kiryat Gat
    Rabbi Shlomo Ben Hamo, and Rabbi Aharon Cohen of Yakir, have signed
    a halakhic ruling permitting the Passover Seder to be held in the
    presence of the "Zoom" program.

    The ruling refers to the possibility of holding the Seder with the
    software being opened before the start of the holiday, so that elderly
    people who cannot be physically close to their family members due
    to the coronavirus epidemic can hold the Seder while seeing their
    family through the program.

    The rabbis state in the ruling that there is no need to worry about
    the issue of operating the program, since it is launched before the
    start of the holiday.

    Regarding the concern that they will be lenient on this issue on
    other holidays as well, the rabbis state that there is no place
    for such concerns since it is clear that these days are a time of
    emergency and the permit is only valid for an emergency.

    "Therefore we are permitting, stressing that this is only for
    emergencies, and only for the purpose of this year's Seder for
    those who need it. And just as they permit a non-dangerous patient
    to receive treatment on Shabbat so as to cure him of his illness,
    so is the case here," the rabbis wrote.