Q. My family was always very medakdek to shlog kappores with a chicken and so does my brother, but I find it impossible to have the time for it. Can I share with him the price, and he will capture the image of the chicken on his phone camera, while I take my phone with the live image of the chicken and wave it around my head?
A. A Although the use of video cameras and recordings has acquired a valid place in Halacha, in regards to Kashrus supervision, yichud protection, identification and instructions regarding dinei Tora and gittin and possibly even in bedikas chometz (see questions 1301, 827,829, 660, 648, 927), when Halacha requires the actual presence of a person or object, such as being part of a minyan, donning tefilin or shaking a lulav etc, the physical actual presence of them is essential.
Therefore, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one facing the above situation should do kaporos with money.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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