[Avodah] heard re: negotiations on shabbas

[Zev Sero]

On 15/09/2011 6:01 PM, shalomyitz at comcast.net wrote:
> Is this true if you already own a house in EY, and are planning to sell
> it in order to buy this house?  You are already doing yishuv EY.  Buying
> the new house doesn't add to that?  Or is there another mitzvah I don't
> know about?  (I'm assuming you are buying from another Jew...).

Bad assumption.  *Selling* a house in EY is not a mitzvah, so if the seller
is a Jew how is he selling it on Shabbos?  The heter is in fact only when
buying from a nochri, and he's about to leave town so the opportunity will
be gone after Shabbos.  If the seller is a Jew then not only are you not
doing a mitzvah, you're being machshil him in an avera.  And if the goy
will be around after Shabbos then why should Chazal give you a heter?



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