– Q. Dear Rabbi. I have been reading your new technology and science shailot and I greatly appreciate your handling and keeping in touch of the constantly changing world we live in.
I have a question regarding my elderly father. He is connected and serviced by a AI computer that B’H basically and promptly takes care of many of his needs and contacts the family when necessary.
My question is regarding counting sefira. Can the AI read the sefira of the day and my father repeats the bracha and the counting with it word by word?

A. Indeed, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that if he repeats everything word by word, it is similar as reading it from a sidur and he complies with the mitzva, The same would apply to the Shema and other parts of davening. The computer has to be set to constantly follow up with his response and condition.

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