[Avodah] Hashavat Aveida or Lifnei Iver?

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From: "Liron Kopinsky" <liron.kopinsky at gmail.com>
I don't know  whether you have a mitzva of hashavas aveida here, but you
definitely have an  obligation to tell him, as nicely as possible, that
shaving with a razor is  assur [--TK]


>>However there is only so much halachik  information a person can take in at
one time. Slamming someone newly  introducted to Halacha with the full gamut
of 613 is probably going to be  overload. Is there an idea that you should
only be teaching the person  halachot that they can reasonably do? ... <<
 
 

>>>>>
Shaving is a d'Oraisa, and if the person has  already decided to become frum, 
he should be taught d'Oraisas as soon as  possible.  Not shaving with a razor 
happens to be one  of the easier ones, because there is a reasonably 
acceptable alternative -- the  electric shaver. It's not as if he has to change 
anything in his routine or his  appearance in order to take on this mitzva.  He 
shaved yesterday and he can  shave tomorrow -- but tomorrow and for the rest of 
his life, he can gain schar  in Shamayim  every time he uses a shaver.  Easy 
brownie  points.  Be sure and tell him that.  (If he decides to become a  chossid 
and stops shaving altogether, he can probably get even /easier/ brownie  
points every day, just by waking up and not shaving :- )

 

--Toby  Katz
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