Q. Rabbi. Some relatives are visiting and staying with us and we are expected to pick them up from the airport. If I usually attend at that time a Torah shiur. Is it correct that I should call an Uber service and attend my daily Torah Shiur.
A. Talmud (Shabbos 127a) makes a surprising radical statement: "Greater is Hachanasat Orchim (welcoming guests) than receiving the Divine Presence." Achavas Chesed (3: 1) rules accordingly and recommends he attend preferably to his guest, when they are people of importance or no one else is available to receive them.
However, if he is the one teaching the Shiur, since then the Torah learning of many is involved he should provide other ways to receive his guest.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that, even when he is only attending the Shiur, that takes precedence.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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