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# | Based on the pasuk "Lifnei Iver Lo TIten Michshol" - "Before a blind person one should not place a stumbling block,"<ref>Vayikra 19:14</ref> chazal understand that there is a prohibition to cause another Jew to violate a prohibition of the Torah. <ref>Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot (Lavin 299)</ref> | ||
==Practical Examples== | |||
# For example, one who borrows and pays back with interest, besides for other transgressions of interest, the borrower is in violation of Lifnei Iver. <ref>Bava Metsia 75b</ref> | |||
# Regarding leaving a commercial website or a vending machine on during [[Shabbat]] in a place where non-religious Jews may use it, see Minchat Yitzchak 5:14, Shevet HaLevi 8:40(1), 10:57, Chelket Yacov 70, VeYan Shmuel 8:11, Rabbi Shmuel Pinchasi (VeDaber Davar 6:12, pg 148), Maareh habezek 5:37, and Darkei David 2:38. | |||
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* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/733139/Rabbi_Josh_Flug/Lifnei_Iver Rabbi Josh Flug about the nature of Lifnei Iver] | |||
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Revision as of 03:36, 4 September 2013
Based on the pasuk "Lifnei Iver Lo TIten Michshol" - "Before a blind person one should not place a stumbling block,"[1] chazal understand that there is a prohibition to cause another Jew to violate a prohibition of the Torah. [2]
Practical Examples
- For example, one who borrows and pays back with interest, besides for other transgressions of interest, the borrower is in violation of Lifnei Iver. [3]
- Regarding leaving a commercial website or a vending machine on during Shabbat in a place where non-religious Jews may use it, see Minchat Yitzchak 5:14, Shevet HaLevi 8:40(1), 10:57, Chelket Yacov 70, VeYan Shmuel 8:11, Rabbi Shmuel Pinchasi (VeDaber Davar 6:12, pg 148), Maareh habezek 5:37, and Darkei David 2:38.
