[Avodah] Lifnei Iveir

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, January 14, 2007 10:11 am, Nachman Levine wrote:
: The Nafak Mina:
: If I try to influence you (or facilitate) (or trick you) into (Chas
: VeShalom)
: actually putting a stumbling block in front of a real blind person
: –does it have this Shem Isur and would I have transgressed this Lav –at
: ALL?

Well, the notion of saying that lifnei iveir is about bad advice or helping
someone sin to the exclusion of literally tripping the blind is supported in
part by the fact that tripping blind people violates other issurim. It would
be superfluous to prohibit this particular kind of chavalah.

So, there would be no nafqa mina lehalakhah, since both agree that (1) telling
someone to sin violates LI, and (2) putting a stumbling block where it might
cause a blind person to hurt himself is assur. The debate is only over which
issurim #2 violates.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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