Reply To: Siddur on a Smart Phone

I don’t think anyone (with a brain) would say it is right to answer, check, read, send… calls, texts, emails etc. during davening. That is outright wrong and a disgrace to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

The question is using an electronic device in place of a Siddur (and the same thing can be asked about chumash, gemarah, tehillim or any other sefer). Is there something wrong with it

It is a very old “minhag” for people to do other things during davening. Talking is probably the #1 distraction in most shuls

The issue of texts popping up each person has to decide for themselves how they want to handle that. There are options to control these things and if you can’t find anything to your liking, build an app that you can control!

And to respond to the plumber, who said “Because you are bringing tumah into a beis knesses”:What tumah? the siddur? If you are referring to the phone, first of all, it can be a Kosher phone. And if it’s not, then that has nothing to do with the siddur. You are bringing the” tumah” into the beis knesses just by having the phone in your pocket.

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