Timeline for Covering containers of water
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 18, 2019 at 6:08 | answer | added | Loewian | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:07 | answer | added | Zev Wrationalist | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 17:13 | answer | added | Digitaria | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 20:36 | answer | added | sam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 19:11 | comment | added | Adám | @DoubleAA My rav told me he does it, lest everybody leaves the room. | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 18:52 | comment | added | ray | I once read that Rav Elyashiv was stringent to cover even the water for netilat yadayim in the morning. He said the same reason as user3445 | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 13:48 | comment | added | user3445 | According to the GR"A, the danger of snakes is just one of many reasons Chazal had for that issur (see, for example, פאת השולחן הל' ארץ ישראל סי' ב' סכ"ה), so we have to follow their גזירות and תקנות even when the given reason isn't applicable. | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 18:55 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Perhaps they are careful lest they leave the table and forget to cover it then? AFAIK the original takana did not involve covering if you were there to watch. | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 18:35 | comment | added | Bruce James | @msh210, I believe the Steipler was stringent on this point. I saw it by Rabbi Yehezkel Danziger (Art Scroll's Talmud editor), shlita, who did not impose the stringency on his guests, but accepted it for himself. | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 18:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/393083205701869568 | ||
| Oct 23, 2013 at 18:30 | comment | added | msh210♦ | (FWIW I've never heard of covering a glass while at the table.) Do you know that the people who do so do so for the reason of not drinking uncovered liquids? | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 18:26 | history | asked | Bruce James | CC BY-SA 3.0 |