- Q. See question 4092 - Regarding the unfortunate incident of being arrested, does the Yungerman need to apologize for putting his hand on the child without the mother’s permission? In the future how should he avoid walking between women in a similar case? How severe is that walking between women prohibition?
A. A. If one sees the video of the Bris in Brooklyn (still available on line), it is obvious that the Yungerman did not do anything wrong at all and did not force the kid to accompany him while he was walking between some women while exiting the house. He just asked him to walk next to him.
Even if he had forced the kid to walk with him, and then he would naturally have to ask ‘Mechila’ and apologize, it would be essentially to the kid. In that case he would have to wait until he becomes Bar Mitzva since only then he can forgive him.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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