Q. See question above. We have in our family room and dining room a very large screen that serves as a virtual picture frame. It changes according to the times we program it, into different scenes, images of our dear family members, and pictures of nature that we greatly enjoy. We also display family photos, portraits etc.

Can we during Shavuot use it to display the greens, plants and flowers that we are used to decorate the house with?

A. On a very similar question (1791) regarding the use of such a screen during Shabbos we wrote: “The Rov also permits leaving on during Shabbos the picture displayed on the screen, if it does not change and stays the same during the complete Shabbos. He also maintains that the controls should be covered and inaccessible.”

However, in our case it may be better to use at least real plants even artificial for the remembrance of the greenery of Har Sinai and Kabbolas Hatorah.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a