[Avodah] Fasting on YK

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:10:04 +0200
"Ilana Sober" <ilanasober at gmail.com> wrote:

[context is an unwell woman fasting on YK]

> AFAIK, if no one else is available, the husband should also stay home
> and take care of his wife and/or kids if that will enable the wife to
> fast.

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And it is permitted to kindle a light for a dangerously ill person,
even if there is an already kindled light at the neighbor, if the
relocation of it to the vicinity of the ill one will cause great pain
and suffering to the neighbor, e.g. if the neighbor is sleeping and it
will be necessary to awaken him.

---End---

Sh'miras Shabbos K'hilchasah 32:65

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Also, a neighbor, or anyone else, is not obligated, me'ikkar ha'din, to
transfer [to an ill person] on Shabbos food that he has prepared for
himself, in order to prevent cooking for the dangerously ill person,
if by his transfer of the food to the ill one he will remain without hot
food on Shabbos.

---End---

ibid. 32:74

These positions are attributed to RSZA, and see notes 166 and 189. [My
translation from the Hebrew edition.]

The principle is that I am not obligated to suffer in order to prevent
hilul Shabbos on behalf of a holeh she'yesh bo sakkanah; one could
therefor argue that a husband who really minded missing YK prayers
would not be obligated to miss them in order to save his wife from the
necessity of eating.  Of course, the language (RSZA's?) contains the
wording "za'ar gadol" and "mi'dina", and RnIS's comment that the husband
"should also stay home" may still be true.

I also do not know if this view is accepted by other Poskim.

> - Ilana

Yitzhak
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