– Q. Kvod Ravenu Shlit’a. Ass we spoke, our family is going on a much needed vacation an we will be staying in a good deal hotel.
Since I usually go to the mikva for Tevilas Ezrah (after family relations), I would like to use in the hotel we are staying, the swimming pool for the Tevilah, as I know is permitted and many do so, even when one is wearing a bathing suit.
My shailah is if it can be done also on Shabbos, as I would go very early when it is still empty.
A. Actually, Shoshanas Yisroel (33: 8) Quotes Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a ruling that it is permitted. Yet one has to be careful not to squeeze any water of the bathing suit. He explains that our Sages permitted it, since we are not concerned of the above when the immersing is done for a Mitzva.
Horav Yaakov Hirschman and Horav Dovid Pam, Shlita maintain that just for a mitzva that is optional and not essential, it should be avoided. Besides, one needs proper Eiruv Chatzeiros set before Shabbos to be able to carry.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a”
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