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==Using Zoom for the Seder== | ==Using Zoom for the Seder== | ||
#Although a minority of rabbis allow using Zoom for this emergency situation in a very extenuating circumstance where an elderly single person is alone for the seder away from family because of the quarantines to use technology to leave a video conference going for Yom Tov to join with a family seder,<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/277764 Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel and other rabbis]</ref> most rabbis consider this to be a breach of halacha.<ref>Rav Asher Weiss (Teleconference March 22 2020 11am, min 39)</ref> | #Although a minority of rabbis allow using Zoom for this emergency situation in a very extenuating circumstance where an elderly single person is alone for the seder away from family because of the quarantines to use technology to leave a video conference going for Yom Tov to join with a family seder,<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/277764 Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel and other rabbis]</ref> most rabbis consider this to be a breach of halacha.<ref>Rav Asher Weiss (Teleconference March 22 2020 11am, min 39), Rav Herschel Schachter (teshuva Adar 29 5780)</ref> | ||
==Mikveh== | ==Mikveh== | ||
