Playback speed
Modern "Lifnei Iver" Questions
- Inviting those who will drive on Shabbat to attend an educational Shabbaton or a family simcha
- Giving directions to a Jewish driver on Shabbat.
- Making Jewish drivers stop on Shabbat so you can cross the road.
- Handing over a job (eg printing, sewing) which will be done on Shabbat by a Jewish worker.
- Giving a bar-mitzvah gift in a place with no Eruv.
- Hiring a babysitter or madrich for Shabbat in such a way that they will be earning ‘schar Shabbat’.
- Printing source sheets containing Shem Hashem when they will be thrown in the garbage.
- Buying cigarettes for a parent or friend.
- Paying a contractor/worker who you suspect is not paying taxes.
- A rabbi officiating at a wedding where the couple will not keep taharat hamishpacha.
- Renting out a catering hall for a function with mixed dancing or non-kosher catering.
- Selling meat to Jews during the 9 days.
- Selling non-kosher meat to non-religious Jews.
- Selling clothes with shaatnez to non-religious Jews.
- Selling/serving food to those who will not wash, bentch or make berachot.
- Getting a non-kosher lunch for a non-religious Jewish boss.
- Letting someone else copy your homework to get higher marks in a test.
- Selling clothes which are not tzanua or giving them away to friends who are non-observant.
- Smacking a child who may hit back.
- Giving a bribe to an official.
- Renting an apartment to non-religious Jews who will not put up mezuzot.
- Teaching Torah or selling Torah books to a non-Jew.
- Encouraging a shidduch without revealing all pertinent information.
- Selling alcohol to underage children, or to those who will abuse it.
- Acting as a lawyer for a Jew suing in a non-Jewish court.
- Acting as a mohel for a child who is not halachically Jewish.
- An Israeli army officer instructing a non-religious soldier to shave, when he will use a razor.
- A religious soldier switching duty on Shabbat with a non-religious soldier.
- Performing a burial on second day Yom Tov in chu’l.
- Taking an animal to a vet to be neutered.
- Selling weapons to potential murderers.
- Assisting as an anesthesiologist for an abortion.
- A pharmacist dispensing pills which will induce an abortion.