Q. I live in a small condo building and my widow that is facing the street, awfully also faces the garbage cans from the building. Should I light the Menorah by that window?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that if the garbage containers are closed there is no issue if you don’t have another window.
On question 3311 regarding if someone stores in the garage smelly garbage cans, that often contain diapers too, is that garage exempt from a Mezuzah, we answered: “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the garbage cans should be kept inside another bigger container, that also shields and protects from the smell.
This applies even if the Mezuza is placed as usual on the outside of the garage door, since often people may say a brocho or words of Torah inside the garage.”
In reality, often people place used diapers at the garbage containers inside the house or kitchen, yet since they are wrapped, covered and don’t smell, we recite brochos next to them.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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