Bathroom reading

Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 11:48 pm Post subject: bathroom reading

do you / can you take mishpacha/bimah into the bathroom to read?

Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 11:50 pm Post subject: re: bathroom reading

binah not bimah

Posted: Wed, Dec 08 2010, 10:44 am Post subject: re: bathroom reading

anyone??

Posted: Wed, Dec 08 2010, 10:50 am Post subject: re: bathroom reading

No. But that 's because I keep other stuff in the house that there's no shaila on Wink

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Yes. I do. but not for long. I dont stay around to read when I dont need to use the porcelain palace anymore. oh and that's only on shabbos., during the week my laptop comes along sometimes.
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Sounds like this could end up in the amother secrets thread Wink

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Is this a bona fide question, or an updated version of the joke from my day, "Can you take the Jewish Press into the bathroom? ""The question is can you take it OUT.?

If a bona fide question, the answer is "Not if it contains Divrei Torah."
If a joke, the answer is "Depends on how big your bathroom is."

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I don't know about the Binah as I don't get it, but regarding the Mishpacha/family first/junior, I would say better not to since it almost always contains divrei torah in it. Even if it's not a whole dvar torah article it's pretty likely to have small divrei torah in an article about something else.

Posted: Wed, Dec 08 2010, 4:09 pm Post subject:

Binah for sure has divrei Torah in it - I can't see how it would be allowed. Possibly you could tear out some articles and make sure they don't have DT on them. Mishpacha - don't know, don't read it.
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Posted: Wed, Dec 08 2010, 5:12 pm Post subject:

cross post from other bathroom thread

Wonering how everyone would stand on a secular fiction book written in English with Jewish references- would you take it in the bathroom? In other words, would you take your Faye Kellerman books in, whenevery now and then Peter and Rina talk about shabbos or the Parsha or other such Jewish topics?

FTR, I dont
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