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</a><font size=3>It is not permissible to brings something with Hashem's
name into a bathroom unless it is inside a double wrapped enclosure. What
about a US dollar bill which says, "In G-d We Trust"? Must you
leave your money outside or double bag it?<br><br>
The Shevet HaKehosi (3:271) brings the Shach (YD 179:11) who says that
you may erase Hashem's name if it is written in another language, such as
the word <br>
G-d. The Gilyon Maharshas adds that this is not the case if it is written
in Ksav Ashuris. The Sdei Chemed says it is a machlokes whether we can
erase Hashem's name written in foreign letters. <br><br>
Even those who hold that erasing Hashem's name written in foreign letters
is assur, it is only if it spells Hashem's name in Lashon HaKodesh and
not the foreign word for it. If it is a foreign term in foreign letters
than according to most poskim it is muttar to erase. The exception is Rav
Yaakov Emden who forbids even this. However the source for Rav Yaakov
Emden's issur is unclear and the Keses Sofer says that he may have meant
only unnecessarily.<br><br>
Furthermore says the Shevet HaKehosi the dollar bills are not written by
anyone with any kavana for Shem Hashem, it is merely printed by a
machine. Therefore he concludes that it has no Kedusha and may be taken
into a bathroom, but if someone wants to be machmir, Tavo Alav
Bracha.<br>
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