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<font size=3>Rav Menashe Klein - Send Mishloach Manos Early Before They
Get Drunk!<br><br>
What happens if the person you sent Mishloach Manos to is dead drunk, are
you yotzei? Rav Menashe Klein (Mishneh Halachos (4:91) says probably not.
Halachically someone who has reached the level of intoxication of Lot is
like a Shoteh and patur from Mitzvos. He reasons that the mitzva of
Mishloach Manos depends on the status of the recipient and not the
sender. If so you have sent to someone who is patur from the Mitzva and
therefore you are not Yotzei. However if he has time to sober up before
Purim is over then you are yotzei.<br><br>
Rav Menashe Klein distinguishes this from a case where the recipient is
merely sleeping. In that case he believes you are probably yotzei because
another person can be koneh for him, whereas a drunkard has no way to be
koneh anything. <br>
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