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We've just received a notice from our local eruv project, including details of an <BR>
arrangement with a pharmacy which is located just outside the eruv to permit <BR>
pickup of medicines on Shabbos and Yom Tov with payment to be made later.<BR>
<BR>
What I thought odd was a statement that to use the service on Shabbos, one <BR>
would have to get a non-Jewish employee to bring the medicine to within the <BR>
eruv to the Jewish purchaser. <BR>
<BR>
I confirmed with my rav this morning: the pharmacy is in a carmelis. (In fact, there are <BR>
plans afoot to extend the eruv to include the pharmacy, so the eruv committee <BR>
apparently agrees.) The concept of carmelis is a miderabannin. Carrying from the <BR>
pharmacy into the eruv is therefore a miderabannin.<BR>
<BR>
Now, why would you be acquiring medicine on Shabbos unless it were for <BR>
someone who is at least a choleh she-ain bo sacana? And unless my memory <BR>
fails me, in such a case, one may violate a miderabannin. So there's no reason <BR>
the Jew can't take the medicine directly from the pharmacy to wherever <BR>
it's needed, provided he doesn't traverse an actual reshus harabim.<BR>
<BR>
I'm presuming that this won't usually apply for a choleh she-yaish bo sacana, <BR>
as such a person would be heading for the hospital. :-)<BR>
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