Reply To: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus*

LU: The Rabbi’s shiur mentions a lot of things, and wraps it up.

It’s on TorahAnytime. Rabbi Eliezer Krohn, “Bringing magazines and Siddurim in the bathroom.”

He said that often magazines like Ami and Mishpacha will have Torah portion lessons. We need to protect them with two covers. So technically, so long as there is no Torah on the covers or first pages, you can have a magazine in the bathroom.

However, you won’t be able to open it, since any Torah needs to be covered at least twice.

I wondered if maybe someone can put Post-its just to open to certain pages, especially if the Torah pages are double wrapped, and the person is maybe in the bathroom next to the tub where a child is playing with toys in the bathtub or something. —That’s probably a shaila.

Anyway… then I don’t know… somehow he talks about the 40 days and also the candle lighting. It is so deep!