<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>(As requested, this is being re-directed from Areivim to Avodah - HM)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Is there anyone on this list that never eats anything in the street? ...and does it apply to chewing gum too? If so does that make us all Pasul L'Eidus? </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span>Just because there is a gemarah that makes a statement like this, doesn't mean that it is Halacha L'Mayash. Is this Halacha cited (brought down - in Yeshiva-speak) in the Choshen Mishpat?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span>I tend to doubt it. Sometimes the Gemara exaggerates to make a point.
Which in this case is probably that it is unrefined to eat in the street and that the Jewish people should not be doing things that are unrefined.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">HM</div><div></div><div> </div><div>Want Emes and Emunah in your life?</div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Try this: http://haemtza.blogspot.com/</div><div><span></span></div><div class="yiv2505387242yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="thread-quoted-text unselectable" title="Hide message history"><span class="icon qtd-expansion-icon icon-chevron-down" data-action="quoted-text"></span> <span class="qtd-expansion-text" data-action="quoted-text">Hide message history</span></div><div class="thread-quoted-body" style="height: 154px;"><div dir="ltr"><font
size="2" face="Arial">On Friday, December 27, 2013 6:17 AM, Prof. Levine <llevine@stevens.edu> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px;"><div class="yiv2505387242y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2505387242"><div>My oldest son, Dovid Levine, sent me the following:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font size="3">I personally heard Rav Nissim Karelitz confirm that Rav Chaim Shlit"a holds<br clear="none">that anyone who talks on a cell phone in the street is pasul le'eydus, like<br clear="none">someone who eats in the street (ochel bashuk...pasul le'eydus). It appeared<br clear="none">that Rav Karelitz did not agree with that psak.</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Want Emes and Emunah in your life? </div><div><br><br></div><div>Try
this: http://haemtza.blogspot.com/</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, December 27, 2013 9:28 AM, Harry Maryles <hmaryles@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2505387242"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span>Is there anyone on this list that never eats anything in the street? ...and does it apply to chewing
gum too? If so does that make us all Pasul L'Eidus? </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Just because there is a gemarah that makes a statement like this, doesn't mean that it is Halacha L'Mayash. Is this Halacha cited (brought down - in Yeshiva-speak) in the Choshen Mishpat?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I tend to doubt it. Sometimes the Gemara exaggerates to make a point. Which in this case is probably that it is unrefined to eat in the street and that the Jewish people should not be doing things that are unrefined.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">HM</div><div></div><div> </div><div>Want Emes and Emunah in your life? </div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Try this:
http://haemtza.blogspot.com/</div><div class="yiv2505387242yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="yiv2505387242yqt7855761969" id="yiv2505387242yqtfd87080"><div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, December 27, 2013 6:17 AM, Prof. Levine <llevine@stevens.edu> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div class="yiv2505387242y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2505387242">
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My oldest son, Dovid Levine, sent me the following:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">
<font size="3">I personally heard Rav Nissim Karelitz confirm that Rav
Chaim Shlit"a holds<br clear="none">
that anyone who talks on a cell phone in the street is pasul le'eydus,
like<br clear="none">
someone who eats in the street (ochel bashuk...pasul le'eydus). It
appeared<br clear="none">
that Rav Karelitz did not agree with that psak.</font></div></div></div> </blockquote> </div></div><div class="yiv2505387242yqt7855761969" id="yiv2505387242yqtfd97156"> </div></div><div class="yiv2505387242yqt7855761969" id="yiv2505387242yqtfd86557"> </div></div><div class="yiv2505387242yqt7855761969" id="yiv2505387242yqtfd31802"> </div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>