R' Marty Bluke asked: > What is the din if you see the makom hamikdash live on a video > camera, for example Aish Hatorah's Kotel Cam. You are seeing the > makom hamikdash just as if you were there. Is there a chiyuv kriah? > ... > I specifically picked a live camera because I think that a picture > or even a video doesn't bring out the same emotions. > ... > This is clearly a question that has only come up in the past few > years, does anyone know of any contemporary poskim who have dealt > with the question? My guess is that a precedent might be drawn from the poskim who dealt with shome'a k'oneh via microphone or telephone: If one is merely hearing a reproduction of the voice and cannot be yotzay, then you're merely looking at a picture of the Makom Hamikdash and there's no kria. But if one is really hearing the person's voice and *can* be yotzay, then he is really looking at the Makom Hamikdash, and kria would work too. Akiva Miller