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Q&A: Words of Torah in the Bathroom

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This is an English translation (via GPT-5.4). Read the original Hebrew version.

Words of Torah in the Bathroom

Question

Hi Rabbi, happy holiday season 🙂
I have a question. Is it permitted to bring a non-Jewish philosophical text into the bathroom when I know that somewhere in it a verse is quoted? In this case, a lecture by Heidegger.
What if the text is not in Hebrew and the verse is quoted from Luther’s translation? And more specifically, when the translation is pretty far from the original?
Could one perhaps discuss this like a Torah scroll written by a heretic, which has no sanctity?
(In our case, the verse is “Commit your way to the Lord”; he quotes it as “befiehl dem Herrn deine Wege” — “Command to the Lord (literally, to the master) your ways.”)
(I’d be happy to get an answer for the different possibilities, because there’s a practical difference for different cases: in the Hebrew translation, the editors added a note mentioning the original verse.)

Answer

https://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/104163

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