[Avodah] timtum halev

[Eli Turkel]

In terms of kavannah for a mitzvah there is a slightly different case

Assume a chiloni doctor oerforms surgery on shabbat to save a life.
He doesnt care that it is shabbat and maybe even anti-shabbat.

Is he considered a mechallel shabbat since he didn't do the melacha
because of pikuach nefesh but would have done it anyway

The answer seems to be a machloket between RMF and RSZA concerning
the issue of whether an O doctor/soldier can ask a nonobservant Jew
to subsitutte for him on shabbat.

RMF allows it on the basis that the the nonfrum doctor is doing fewer
sins in the hospital than at home because much of his chillul shabbat is
for very sick people and so either mutar or at worse a debrabban and so
lifne iver doesnt apply

RSZA does not allow asking a chiloni to take over since he considers
this as lifne iver. He seems to assume that chiloni doctor driving
to the hospital on shabbat is a mechalel shabbat even though he might save lives
since he would drive anyway on shabbat

See an article in the recent issue of the Journal of Halacha in Contemporary
Society where they bring various sugyot whether one can get a mitzva
without intention, i.e. someone fishing and the nets catch and save an infant.

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Eli Turkel