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Many times in our daily lives halachic questions arise and topical doubts arise.
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Sha'arei Ezra community and head of Beit Erzi HaLevanon, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in the Beit Midrash and outside of it.
And this week: Is it permissible to torture an artist openly without a cap?
Question
:
Hello to the rabbi and thank you for the article that dealt with blessing the Prime Minister's life in the Knesset Plenum.
And in connection with this, I wondered how it is allowed to bless in a place where there are people who are known that some of them will not answer Amen for his blessing and the other part who will, will do so without a cap or head covering?
Answer
:
Hello to the honorable questioner.
Regarding the first question, Ben Ish Chai wrote (Masei Aut Yad) that if the one who blesses something for himself, sees that the listeners are disdainful and do not answer Amen - it is good that he blesses in a whisper, and brings the words of kindness to the thousands (C. Reto Aut 3), and Z'al: "They It is true that according to the size of the reward that should be warned in the poverty of an artist as his correction, it is appropriate to fear God in his commandments. He wants to be careful and quick to bless his blessings with a loud voice, in order to be victorious and to merit others with him, but if he fears that there are unfair people who are not careful in the poverty of artists properly, it is possible that the absence Good and even better if he blesses in a whisper.
And if there is a mirror of God who is careful in the mitzvot, he will do his part to bless with a loud voice, the listener will hear and answer, and a good blessing will come upon them."
Therefore, it would seem that it would be better not to bless, but it is possible that all these things were not said except to a person who observes the mitzvot and despises the poverty of the artist, then there is a prohibition of "before a city, you shall not give an obstacle", but in a convert who does not keep the mitzvot, the Shachak wrote (Yod C. Kana Sec. 6) that there is no prohibition before urbanization, and this is how he explained his words in the great Shem HaDgul Marvaba (Jud C. Kana).
Therefore, it is not forbidden to bless where there are converts, even though it is known that they will not respond Amen to that blessing.
And with regard to the second question that causes the person to answer Amen with his head uncovered, here is Rabbi Meir Mazuz Shalita (brought by God's blessing to Rabbi Moshe Levy zt'al 6a Amud Shama) brought evidence that one should not answer Amen without covering his head from the words of Rabbi Avraham Saba (father-in-law of Maran the 22nd) in his book Seror Hamor (Parashat Nesha): "And that woman will bear her sin" - as the sages say, "She answered Amen by uncovering her head", because when she is satisfied it is written "And the woman answered Amen Amen",
Here before us there is a prohibition to answer Amen with the head uncovered, and therefore the blesser should also be careful not to bless in front of people who do not have a kippa on their heads in order not to fail them.
However, the Gaon Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Yiv Omer, 16:15, 7) expressed a different spirit with him and believed that a person whose head is upside down may answer amen after blessing, and also wrote Rabbi Yitzchak Barda (Yitzhak Yernan 16:20) and two prophets prophesy in one style And according to the words of the book Knesset Yisrael Sassoon (C. 17 DIA 13) who wrote that although the Shulchan Aruch forbade saying the name of God with the head uncovered, it is permissible to say Amen with the head uncovered.
Therefore, whoever puts a tefillin on his head, and recites Kaddish while his head is uncovered, he is allowed to answer Amen, since there is neither the name of the name nor a nickname here.
And he ended there with the words of the visionary Ish who wrote: "We need to bring the peoples of the land closer together as much as possible to revive them and do good to them, and above all not to increase, God forbid, jealousy and hatred that go beyond you shall not hate your brother, this is how he weighed it"
And the same was written by Rabbi Yona Metzger in his book Maim HaHalacha (HA 33), therefore according to all these things it seems that a person should not be forbidden to bless knowing that those who answer Amen will answer without covering their heads.
David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuba Israel
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