[Avodah] Lifnei Iveir

[Jacob Farkas]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.

V'Lifnei Iveir in a literal sense would be Gerama, not active Hezeq. For 
those who don't see an Issur in digging a Bor bereshus harabim because 
it merely creates a possibility of paying damages, this would be no 
different.

With the exclusion of the Issur of V'lifnei Iveir, one might 
differentiate between active Hezeq to this form of passive Hezeq.

--Jacob Farkas