Reply To: Popa is an ?? ????

Popa is still an am haaretz.

Today at shul, I was the only ben torah there. There is usually a rav who davens there (there is no rav of the shul), but he didn’t come today.

So I’m thinking, if they have a shaila on the torah, they will probably ask me. But I don’t know the halachos, because I skipped them, because when would I ever have to know them?

??? ????, there was a shaila, so they called me over. I said, I don’t know these halachos, I never learned them.

But what else should we do? So I go over, and all the ink is scratched off from that letter, but the brownish mark is still there. So I say, I don’t know if this is good, I can try to look it up, but I may not find it so fast. So we put the torah away, because nobody knows (and take another one).

Then, I pull the yad yisroel, and find 143:25, and behold, it is a machlokes, and the mishna berura says to not put it away.

Oh well.