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    huju
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    Does Torah or Halacha affirmatively require a clear plastic table cover? I personally don’t like it, but if it is a mitzvah, then of course it should be used.

    #2247280
    Kuvult
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    It’s not required but is a very important question when making Shidduchim.

    #2247281
    ☕️coffee addict
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    If you have another way to keep your white tablecloth stain free go right ahead

    #2247285
    Gadolhadorah
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    What type of table and for what purposes?? Wouldn’t it depend on the material the table is made of (i.e. wood, glass, ceramic etc) and what the table would be used for. Also, if a covering is required, why “plastic” which didn’t exist until modern times so obivously couldn’t have been mandated by the Torah or shulchan aruch etc

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    Yabia Omer
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    It’s not Shabbosdik

    #2247291

    to the original poster: are you joking?

    #2247301
    Gadolhadorah
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    “to the original poster: are you joking?”
    Why would the OP “joke’ about such a heilege question which CLEARLY falls within the category of יהרג ואל יעבור

    #2247296
    commonsaychel
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    I use it to upset the environmentalist wack jobs.

    #2247311
    akuperma
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    It’s not even a minhag. How could it be, as plastic is a recent invention. It is convenient since you can have a nice table cloth for milkig and fleishig, and just change the plastic.

    #2247509
    Gadolhadorah
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    The more important question brought down by chazal is when there is a chiyuv to use clear plastic slip covers on a couch in the living room where these ehrliche menchen will gather before moving to the TABLE ROOM where there is less of a sheilah regarding the obligation to use a clear plastic table cover. Whereas some hold it is OK to use a translucent plastic cover for the table, the slip covers must be totally clear except for the seams where some opacity is OK

    #2247519
    huju
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    To commonsaychel: how many environmental wack jobs do you invite for a meal?

    #2247518
    huju
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    To lwerourtuition: no, I was not joking. And I do realize that plastic was invented after Rashi, but I am wondering about the origin of the practice.

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