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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel <A href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>>>
from daily halacha<BR><BR>However, a "zecher l'churban" unfinished wall area is
required in<BR>other public use buildings such as catering halls and hotels.
Piskei<BR>Tshuvos 560:6<BR><BR>Has anyone ever seen such a thing in a hotel or
catering hall?<BR><BR>I have been in very few homes where there was a noticeable
zecher lechurban<<<BR><BR>-- <BR>Eli Turkel</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>I've never seen it in a hotel and have rarely seen
it in chu'l, but in E'Y almost every charedi apartment has an unpainted
rectangle over the front door.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>In my own home (Florida) whenever some tile breaks
or paint flakes off and I don't get around to fixing it, I just say,
"Zecher lechurban." </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>This is only semi-humorous, because I believe that the
entropy that results in constant breakage and flakeage is the result of our
living in a non-redeemed world. Entropy won't exist anymore (or won't
cause personal damage and loss) when Moshiach comes. The ultimate entropy
is death and death will be no more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
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