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Good erev yom tov
are we allowed to post?
depends on who your rabbi is.
why not? if you can backspace after writing the shem Hashem why cant you type?
Only if its essential.
Even if it is considered writing (actually there are a number of pixels which the human eye cannot differentiate) It will be erased after you post. See ????? ??? ?????? ?”? ?’ ?? ???? ??? in the name of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach regarding writing on on a blackboard with chalk.However, there are those who disagree (regarding writing on a blackboard (ibid) but maybe a computer screen is easier for the above reason.
Toi’s S’vara is perfect. Hence, since Rav Elyashiv Assers writing Shem Hashem (or any Divrei Torah-goodbye Bar Ilan) on a computer screen, you can’t type of Chol Hamo’ed either.
Typing on a computer is not called kesiva as far as Chol Hamoed is concerned. Printing out what is written is assur.
Sam2:
Can you please post your source. What was his reason for assuring writing Shem Hashem on a computer. Thanks.
What i am writing now is just a bunch of 0’s and 1’s.
As for what appears on your screen its a Ksav Shain Miskayem.
What your looking at right now is actully flashing on and off over 30 times a second.
Acourding to what Sam2 says from Rav Elyashiv (still not confirmed) bringing a tape cassette in to the bathroom should also be Assur.
Whats the difference between the 0’s and 1’s on your harddrive and the magnetic strip of your cassette tape ?
Right Path: And writing is really just a splurge of ink on wood (paper).
RABBAIM: So you cant print a webpage, even if you never wrote anything?
my rebbe paskins that you can backspace on the Shem Hasem.
shein: Stop “haking” around. You get my point. Give me a normal answer.
Taking a photograph with a film camera may also be a problem.
On second thought i would think its not a problem.
Taking a picture only creates a chemical change to the photographic film inside the camera.
But no image actuly forms an till the film is developed.
Right Path: and writing on paper is just a bunch of ink splatter. So by your logic it is okay for that reason.
Right Path: I don’t know if he published it. He told this a major Posek personally who I spoke to about this. When he mentioned to him that this would make Bar Ilan a huge problem, Rav Elyashiv said, “Tzrich Lefarsem”. And it doesn’t matter how the Shem is created scientifically. The fact is that there is a visible Shem Hashem and closing the computer window causes that to be erased. There’s no visible Shem Hashem on a cassette. (But I can’t speak for R’ Elyashiv; maybe he’d hold that that’s a problem too.)
Sam2 Thanks for the source.
Its just a little hard to understand. The Shem may be visible to the human eye but technically speaking its not realy there.
Its flashing on and off many times a second.
So the Ksav is not a Ksav Hamiskayem
Crazybrit: I agree with most of what you wrote. The last sentence I disagree.
R’ Doniel Neustadt holds that writing on a computer screen is not considered a ksav. When you write on a piece of paper, the ink goes on the paper. Ksav means attaching ink to a paper. On a computer screen,letters that appear on the screen are not being attached to the screen.
i think posting is the same as writing
Machlokes poskim: see piskei tshuvos hilchos chol hamoed page 56, siman 545:2 footnotes 9,10,11,13.
Sam4321 Thanks!
Sam2: interestingly in Sefer vayishma Moshe(piskei Rav Eliyashiv) it says that to record something is not kisiva,but can only be done by davar shavad.
Right path : your welcome. Regarding pictures,piskei tshuvos matirs it from shmiras Shabbas and he brings Rav Moshe who mattired it. Devolping should not be done.
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