Zoom Meetings on Shabbos and Yom Tov

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The opening of this shiur, in Yaakov Lemmer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

If it's a question of prevention, and a person needs to participate in the Zoom or a phone meeting to maintain sobriety and stability, he or she is allowed to use Zoom or similar or similar technology on Shabbos or Yom Tov, and it's not a question of chillul Shabbos or Yom Tov, because that is also considered pikuach nefesh and is decheh Shabbos, as we just heard from Rav Dovid Cohen. But in that case, when it's prevention to participate in the Zoom meeting, then it should be done with a shinui while the person is logging in. Which means, if the person, he or she is a righty, they should use their left hand, preferably a finger or a knuckle. If that's impossible, because they

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