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* 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 | * 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> | * 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> | ||
===Asking a non-Observant Jew to do something for you after Shabbat before Havdala=== | |||
# There is a discussion amongst the poskim if one can take a taxi or bus after [[Shabbat]] with a driver who didn't recite [[havdala]]. <ref> | |||
* Rav Yisrael Yaakov Fischer (Even Yisrael 8:25) was lenient. His logic was that the purpose of [[havdala]] is to separate between kodesh and chol, but once a person already did melacha before [[havdala]] it is already chol for him and he is no longer obligated in [[havdala]]. Thus it would be permitted for a person to benefit from his melacha because it is not called chilul [[Shabbat]] anymore. | |||
* Tzitz Eliezer 12:37 suggests that you greet the driver with a shavua tov and hopefully the driver will respond shavua tov , and thereby fulfill his torah obligation of [[havdala]]. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kihilchita 58: note 31 disagreed and says this wouldn’t work and only [[shabbat]] shalom would potentially work to fulfill [[kiddish]] but shavua tov wouldn’t work for [[havdala]]. | |||
* Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:161 writes that once a Jew has performed melacha he may continue to perform melacha for you even before [[havdala]]. Rav Shternbuch also raises the argument that the only reason melacha is prohibited in the first place is so that you wouldn’t forget to say [[havdala]], which wouldn’t apply to someone who doesn’t plan on saying it anyway. | |||
* for clarification see [http://www.bknw.org/uploads/5/9/9/5/5995719/taxis_in_israel_on_motzai_shabbos.pdf Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz] | |||
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===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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