Question:
Since the start of corona (a week after Purim) we have had a minyan 3 times a day in the courtyard in between a group of buildings.
The Minyan has around 30-40 men on a given Shabbos, there is a kovidic davening drashas etc..
We have a Bima and a Aron Kodesh (which is not a safe)
Every Leining day somebody who lives 5 buildings away brings his sefer Torah for leining. It is a privately owned sefer torah that lived in a local shul prior to the onset of corona, since then it has lived in the apartment of the owner.
Being that it is a “private sefer torah”, it’s being used for a minyan (likely to have 60+ people on Yom Kippur)
It has an aron Kodesh to go to is it allowed to transport the sefer torah to the minyan for Kol Nidrei?
Thanks!
Answer:
The poskim say that it is permitted, because it is being brought for a tzibbur.
Regarding the fact that the sefer torah is a private one, this is not necessarily to permit its being moved for an invalid reason. See Piskei Teshuvos 135-24.
Sources:
M:B 135-47, Biur Halacha 135 D:H Ayn.
