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The following is from Areivim.<br><br>
R. Micha wrote:<br><br>
<font size=3>On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:31:35PM -0500, Prof. Levine
wrote:<br>
> I recall hearing from someone that RYBS pointed out that our
bathrooms <br>
> today are nothing like the bathrooms of yesteryear and the halacha
is <br>
> different today. (I have no details.) Today's bathrooms
are certainly a <br>
> far cry from the outhouses of the past.<br><br>
At
<a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol12/v12n085.shtml#15" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol12/v12n085.shtml#15</a> REMP cites
R'<br>
Ruderman saying that today's bathroom is not the talmudic beis
hakisei.<br><br>
And see the thread at <br>
<a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=A#AIRPLANE%20BATHROOMS" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=A#AIRPLANE%20BATHROOMS<br>
</a>which includes a discussion of drying hands outside the bathroom.
(An<br>
issue already raised here.)<br><br>
I quoted a rebbe-chaver (who is a dayan and the head of YCT's halakha
dept)<br>
who said this on his own authority.<br><br>
R David Eisen replied at
<<a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol14/v14n082.shtml#15" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol14/v14n082.shtml#15</a>><br>
pointing us to a copy of RAZZivitofsky's article in the RJJ Journal<br>
"Your Camp Shall be Holy: Halacha and Modern Plumbing" at<br>
<<a href="http://the-eisens.com/modern_plumbing.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://the-eisens.com/modern_plumbing.pdf</a>>. Unfortunately, that
domain<br>
no longer exists, never mind the PDF. IIRC, RAZZ leaned toward
saying<br>
the modern bathroom follows the gemara's precedent of the Persian<br>
bathroom, where the re'ei rolls down an incline.<br><br>
If you have anything to add, kindly quote this entire post in a reply
to<br>
Avodah.<br><br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br><br>
Reb Ari Z. Zivotofsky sent me his article "Your Camp Shall be Holy:
Halacha and Modern Plumbing" today and he gave me permission
to post it on my we site. It is at <br><br>
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/halacha_modern_plumbing.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/halacha_modern_plumbing.pdf</a>
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