[Avodah] Maakeh

[Mordechai Torczyner]

On 12/29/06, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> Think how many shuls you know have a duchan built like a stage
> -- no maakah. We think of Judaism in very rite-based terms: frumkeit, not
> ehrlachkeit.

Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 427:3 explicitly exempts a shul from a maakeh.

Presumably, though, if it were truly a dangerous situation there would still be a lifnei iver obligation.

Be well,
Mordechai


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