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===Yom Tov Sheni=== | ===Yom Tov Sheni=== | ||
# For whether someone holding two days of [[Yom Tov]] can ask a Jew who is only keep one day to do work for him, see [[http://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Yom_tov_sheni#Asking_an_Israeli_do_Melacha_on_Yom_Tov_Sheni|Asking an Israeli to do work on Yom Tov Sheni]] | # For whether someone holding two days of [[Yom Tov]] can ask a Jew who is only keep one day to do work for him, see [[http://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Yom_tov_sheni#Asking_an_Israeli_do_Melacha_on_Yom_Tov_Sheni|Asking an Israeli to do work on Yom Tov Sheni]] | ||
===Inviting a non-Observant Guest who may Drive=== | |||
# There is a big discussion amongst the poskim if one may invite a guest for [[Shabbat]] who is going to drive to get there or back. <ref> | |||
* Rav Moshe Shternbuch (Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:358) is lenient since you are trying to cause the person to refrain from sinning in the long term by inviting them to take part in a religious [[shabbat]] experience. He adds that it cannot be a problem of lifnei iver if your intentions are to help the person. However, he adds some stipulations: 1. to avoid chilul Hashem, make sure they park at a distance from your home. 2. One should make sure to warn them of the severity of [[Shabbat]] desecration and the sweetness of its observance. see also Minchat Shlomo 2:4:10, Sh"t Rivevot Ephraim 7:402 and Umekarev Biyemin 16. | |||
* Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe OC 1:99) in addressing inviting people to come to shul if they're going to drive, forbade doing so because one is in effect inciting the person to drive, which is a biblical violation of meisit, even worse than the rabbinic prohibition of misayea biydei ovrei aveira, assisting in a sin. He says that this problem would apply even if the issue of lifnei iver doesn't. Rav Yaakov Ariel In Biohala shel torah 5:22 rules leniently, and thinks that to say that it is meisit was just an exaggeration to emphasize the severity. see also Sh"t [[Shevet Halevi]] 8:165:6; 8:256:2 where Rav Vosner forbids a mohel from performing a circumcision on [[Shabbat]] if he is concerned there will be a desecration of [[shabbat]] with the arrival of guests. see also Sheeilat Shlomo 4:109 | |||
* According to Tzitz Eliezer 6:3 you can invite guests if they can walk over as long as they don't tell you specifically that they plan to drive. </ref> | |||
===Giving directions to a non-observant Jewish driver=== | ===Giving directions to a non-observant Jewish driver=== | ||
# This issue becomes extremely complex because while one does not want to encourage driving on [[Shabbat]], one also does not one to be rude and cause the driver to drive more unnecessarily looking for his destination. In such a situation, it advised to respond "It is [[Shabbat]] and one may not drive on [[Shabbat]]. However, so as to minimize your [[Shabbat]] transgression, the shortest route is as follows..."<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, v. 1). See, however, Yalkut Yosef.</ref> | # This issue becomes extremely complex because while one does not want to encourage driving on [[Shabbat]], one also does not one to be rude and cause the driver to drive more unnecessarily looking for his destination. In such a situation, it advised to respond "It is [[Shabbat]] and one may not drive on [[Shabbat]]. However, so as to minimize your [[Shabbat]] transgression, the shortest route is as follows..."<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, v. 1). See, however, Yalkut Yosef.</ref> | ||
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