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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Torah Articles - a proposal.
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 14:13:25 EST
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> > ALSO--does anyone know if one needs to include a B"H at the
> > beginning of electronic transmissions? (I shall also ask my local
> > rabbi).
> 
> Good question. Offhand, I would suggest that it's better not to since Rav 
> Moshe Feinstein says not to write it on top of a letter that will be
> ripped up,trashed,etc. I think that most people (I know that I certainly do)
> delete part of a posting to the net when responding to it and therefore will
> come to erase those letters, which convey His name and should not be 
> erased. 

	I never really understood what the purpose of writing B"H ( B'ezrat
 Hashem, with the help of G-D ) on the top of a paper was for? What does it
 accomplish? And, what is wrong with tearing up a paper with an abbreviation
 on it? The abbreviation has no inherent holiness, so that it should not be
 erased. Surely, you don't think it has the same sanctity as the name of G-D,
 which shouldn't be erased.

				Eliyahu Teitz.