Question:
Sholam Rav,
What is the halachah if one is in the middle of shemonah esrei, and a siren goes off? Is one allowed to go into a bomb shelter or should he just stay where he is and ignore it?
Answer:
Hello,
Unless your Rov tells you personally otherwise, he should go into the bomb shelter.
But surely a siren isn’t worse than a scorpion wrapped around one ankle, and yet the halachah there is that one shouldn’t interrupt.
see O:CH 104-3 that for a scorpion, which is more harmful that a snake (that isn’t angry) that one may walk out of ther place to another safer place, and also talk out.
How is this case different than a snake where one may not make a Hefsek to escape?
see O:Ch 104-3 and M:B 10, that it is permitted to move to another place without talking out, even if the snake is not angry and most probably will not bite him.
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