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# It is forbidden to enter a non-kosher restaurant because of maris ayin. However, one who is famished, and has nowhere else to eat (in place of tzar and loss) is allowed to walk into a non-kosher restaurant and eat any kosher food which they may serve (coffee etc). The reason why entering is permitted is because one who suffers a great loss may override a rabbinic prohibition to remove his suffering.<ref>Igros Moshe 2:40. Refer to Mesechtas Kesubos 60a. </ref> Based on the above, one who does not have a different place in which to use the bathroom other than a non-kosher restaurant may enter the non-kosher restaurant to use their bathroom. Others are lenient with walking into a non-kosher restaurant to use the bathroom even if there is another bathroom available. | # It is forbidden to enter a non-kosher restaurant because of maris ayin. However, one who is famished, and has nowhere else to eat (in place of tzar and loss) is allowed to walk into a non-kosher restaurant and eat any kosher food which they may serve (coffee etc). The reason why entering is permitted is because one who suffers a great loss may override a rabbinic prohibition to remove his suffering.<ref>Igros Moshe 2:40. Refer to Mesechtas Kesubos 60a. </ref> Based on the above, one who does not have a different place in which to use the bathroom other than a non-kosher restaurant may enter the non-kosher restaurant to use their bathroom. Others are lenient with walking into a non-kosher restaurant to use the bathroom even if there is another bathroom available. | ||
==Attending a meeting in a non-Kosher Restaurant == | ==Attending a meeting in a non-Kosher Restaurant == | ||
# If one's boss asks him to meet a client in a non-kosher restaurant, one is permitted to do so if he will otherwise lose his job. However, if his job is not in jeopardy if he does not go to the non-kosher restaurant, then he should not go. In any case, one who finds himself in this situation should discuss it with a Rav. | # If one's boss asks him to meet a client in a non-kosher restaurant, one is permitted to do so if he will otherwise lose his job. However, if his job is not in jeopardy if he does not go to the non-kosher restaurant, then he should not go. In any case, one who finds himself in this situation should discuss it with a Rav.<ref> Igrot Moshe OC 2:40 writes that it is forbidden to enter a non-kosher restaurant even to get a drink of water because of the marit ayin that a person is going to eat non-kosher. However, he adds, if a person is very thirsty it is permitted if there are no Jews around, like the Gemara Ketubot 60a allows certain cases of marit ayin to avoid pain or hunger.<br /> | ||
See Rav Moshe OC 1:96 who writes that it is totally permissible to ride in a car to shul within the 18 minutes of candle lighting as long as there is ample time before sunset to arrive at shul and not violate Shabbat. Even though some people might mistakenly think that it is forbidden even for men to do melacha after the women light candles, there is no marit ayin since they can learn the truth. However, nonetheless Rav Moshe took upon himself bli neder not to drive within the 18 minutes to avoid people getting the wrong impressions about the gravity of Shabbat. In this context, Rav Moshe felt that something that was widely known to be permitted wasn’t marit ayin. <br /> | |||
Rav Asher Weiss (Minchat Asher Responsa YD 1:67) is lenient to allow Jews to go to business meetings in non-kosher restaurants based on two factors: 1) We shouldn’t invent new cases of marit ayin that chazal didn’t forbid and perhaps this would constitute a new case of marit ayin (See Pri Chadash OC 461 and YD 87:7) 2) Marit ayin is relative to the time and place. Since everyone knows that a religious Jew wouldn’t go into a non-kosher restaurant for a meal, and he is likely just going in for a business meeting, there is room to be lenient. This is based on the Shulchan Aruch YD 298:1 who permits wearing garments made from wool and silk and there’s no marit ayin of shatnez because everyone knows that silk is different than linen, even though in the days of chazal this was forbidden because of marit ayin.</ref> | |||
==Entering a Cafeteria == | ==Entering a Cafeteria == | ||
