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Many ebay sellers are really Asian based and have free shipping to Israel. (especially electronics) All toiletries you can buy there and save yourself the weight.
In E”Y, after talking with many avreichim and after moving into many apartments that have had previous kollel families living in them, and myself trying to be careful about mezuzos, I have more than once found that the people before you are “relying on the people before them.” And, many times, it traces back to someone who wasn’t the biggest yarei shomayim, and, at times, even someone who wasn’t really frum! One guy told me, “we don’t even use those doors!” and, lo and behold, the mezuzos were pasul. I found a mezuza was even put in UPSIDE DOWN in an apartment: TWICE. So many b’nei Torah don’t even think about it – and they after all told me excuses.
Then, ESPECIALLY after talking with sofer friends, about checking their friends mezuzos in rentals in E”Y, DO NOT trust what came before you. ALWAYS check. Besides the fact you need to check twice in seven years. Call your local gemach to borrow to go and check. If you don’t have one, make one. If you can’t make one, take some maaser and donate to one.
yungerman1, correct, he did not say whether we should or shouldn’t. He just clearly held the decision wasn’t silly, stupid or rash. He is just holding cup in the issue, and it’s no worse than consulting a likut sefer.
But HaRav HaGaon Isaac Kahn SHLIT”A is one of the leading poskim of the dor and you can really rely on him in these matters. To that you cannot have a ta’ana. He’s one of the biggest poskim in the BD”Z in noshim and niddah (hence, the doula and midwife went to talk with him).
Why are you nitpicking? If you noticed, I placed Rav Kahn before Rabbi Baum. Have you asked YOUR Competent Orthodox Authority, or are you guessing? And I want to hear from Rabbonim who are holding cup in the issue.
As for the “LOR” shaila, it should be known that Rav Isaac Kahn, one of the leading poskim of the BD”Z-Jerusalem, has had a 45 minute conversation with a known midwife for 25 years in Jerusalem with a very known/famous doula. Rav Kahn gives heterim to those asking him.
Also, Rabbi Baum, the known mohel in Jerusalem, when we asked him what he thought of a homebirth, asked, “Who are you using?” We told him, and he said, “I heard Plonis is better, but she’s also good.” Didn’t blink an eye. In fact, most of his Hilchos Horaion/Hilchos Yoledes shiur was spent explaining many of the halachic problems that doctors attempt to force onto mothers in a very vulnerable situation, including ziruz leida and epidurals, which he said most Rabbanim he talked to are against except in the most extreme cases.