May one say 'there is no responding in the bathhouse' (i.e., state the halakhic rule) in the inner room of a bathhouse when someone asks a halachic question or greets with Shalom?
Synopsis
When someone asks a halachic question in the inner room, it is forbidden to respond — including the meta-response 'there is no responding in the bathhouse.' However, one may say simply 'it is a bathhouse.'
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