10:30am today Beth Din Annulment of utensil ownership to release need of Mikva toveling. TIME SENSITIVE!!! (See below)

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As you know, most newly acquired utensils require tevilas keilim (immersion in a mikveh).  In the current circumstances of social distancing and other constraints, this will not be easy, or even possible.  So, the cRc is setting up a mechanism to exempt utensils from that obligation, in reliance on a suggestion of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach for emergency situations. 

If a Jew does not own a vessel that he is using, that vessel does not require t'vilah (immersion).  Accordingly, we will be hosting a series of conference calls where people can declare as hefker (ownerless) any relevant keilim (utensils) before a cRc Beth Din panel of rabbis.

The first conference call for this purpose will be tomorrow, Monday March 30, 2020, at 10:30 am. The call in number is 773-657-9272. 

Participants will be called upon, individually, to recite the following script:

"Hello.  My name is [     ].  I hereby declare that all of the food related utensils that I own that require t'vila but have not been toveled yet are hereby hefker, declared ownerless to everyone."

The Beth Din panel will respond: 

"Your utensils are now hefker." (You can then hang up.)

After performing this procedure, have in mind if you use these utensils from now through Pesach, you are using hefker utensils -- and not your own utensils. This declaration will remove your ownership from the utensils requiring t'vilah and will allow for the use of any utensil currently in your possession.    

Please keep in mind that this is a leniency necessitated by the constraints of the day, a type of work-around.  When there is, with G-d's help, an opportunity to toyvel the utensils in the future, you must do so properly, after re-acquiring them.

Stay safe.

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