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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>
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==
==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>
# 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.
# Right before Shabbat it is forbidden to get in a taxi if the driver is Jewish if there’s not enough time for him to get home before Shabbat after he drops you off.<ref>Or Letzion (v. 2 p. 153 16:7)</ref>
==Non-religious Jews==
# There are poskim who are lenient regarding the rabbinic form of lifnei iver for a non-religious Jew specifically if he is going to violate the prohibition intentionally.<ref>Dagul Mirvava to Shach YD 151:6</ref> This does not apply to the biblical cases of lifnei iver.<ref>Shach 159:3 applies lifnei iver to giving interest to a mumar. </ref>
 
==Links==
* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/733139/Rabbi_Josh_Flug/Lifnei_Iver Rabbi Josh Flug about the nature of Lifnei Iver]
===Related Pages===
* [[Opening bottles and cans]]
* [[Asking a Jew to work on Shabbat]]


==Sources==
==Sources==
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Revision as of 10:15, 2 December 2020

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

  1. 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]
  2. 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.
  3. Right before Shabbat it is forbidden to get in a taxi if the driver is Jewish if there’s not enough time for him to get home before Shabbat after he drops you off.[4]

Non-religious Jews

  1. There are poskim who are lenient regarding the rabbinic form of lifnei iver for a non-religious Jew specifically if he is going to violate the prohibition intentionally.[5] This does not apply to the biblical cases of lifnei iver.[6]

Links

Related Pages

Sources

  1. Vayikra 19:14
  2. Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot (Lavin 299)
  3. Bava Metsia 75b
  4. Or Letzion (v. 2 p. 153 16:7)
  5. Dagul Mirvava to Shach YD 151:6
  6. Shach 159:3 applies lifnei iver to giving interest to a mumar.