Reply To: Is “shushing” the “shusher” nekama?

There is a halacha that one must not talk while eating (“ain soichin b’seudah”), it is a sakana (choking hazzard – “shema yadim kona l’veshet” food can go into air pipe).

Is it okay to shush people talking in an eatery (restaurant, coffee or pizza shop)? Simply to enforce the halacha and to prevent them from danger (“U’shemartem me’od nafshoseichem”)!

Before starting a campain to “Stop The Talking” in eateries and sending out armies of shushers, is there a heter for shmoozing while eating?