Q. One more question. A while ago you wrote about recording a class / lecture (question 627 Q. I am a student in a secular university. They have a policy of religious accommodation and if requested, they record classes given on religious holidays so that the religious student can listen to the class after the holiday.
Is this permitted as they are working on Yom Tov for me? The answer was. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that there is a reasonable standpoint to be lenient in the fact that this case contains a possible "sfeik Sfeiko" or double doubt. Firstly, it is quite possible that in the taping of the lecture no significant Shabbos prohibition has been done. The lecturer is talking to a recorder that is already on and the device could have been set and prepared before Yom Tov began. Additionally, as you pointed out there may be also other non-Jewish students that could benefit from the taped material and the recording was done also for their benefit.)
You wrote it is OK on Shabbos. Is it the same if a Jew recorded it?
Thanks so much.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that it is not permitted when it is recorded by a Jew.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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