[Avodah] Inviting Someone On Shabbos Who Uses the Eruv

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

I had written:
> I understand that they have the right to follow whichever posek
> they choose to follow. This would apply to any time they are on
> their own, choosing to do whatever their posek allows. But if I
> hold that m'ikar hadin it is assur, why am I not violating lifnei
> iver when I ask them to do it?

R' Zev Sero answered:

> Because you recognise that the Torah gives them the right to
> follow that psak, so in doing so they're neither blind nor
> stumbling.

I see that I was not clear. I'll try it again.

My understanding is that as a practical matter, given that we have no Sanhedrin today, none of us really knows for sure what the Halacha is, i.e., what HaShem wants us to do. And therefore as a practical matter, each of us follows the halacha as we've been taught it, and as we understand it, and as we figure HaShem wants us to act.

Therefore, suppose my posek paskens and/or my understanding of halacha is that in a certain area, the basic halacha is that HaShem doesn't want ANY Jew to carry there on Shabbos. If so, then as a practical matter I will not interfere with someone else's psak/decision to carry there, especially since my posek and I have no guarantee that we are right. But given that my posek and I do have this understanding that HaShem doesn't want ANY Jew to carry there, then how can I ask another Jew to do that which I hold to be assur? Logic tells me that I must treat Meleches Shabbos and Lifei Iver the same.

Akiva Miller

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