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Regarding the conviction of a secular person for an offense

שו”תCategory: Meta HalachaRegarding the conviction of a secular person for an offense
asked 2 months ago

You claim that a secular person who does not believe in the Torah is not committing a crime at all and there is no prohibition against stumbling him, but why can’t it be said that in a crime he does harm to the spiritual world, like when a person commits an immoral act, and therefore there is a problem with stumbling him into a crime?


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מיכי Staff answered 1 month ago
You can say anything. Is there a prohibition against causing a minor to stumble in a transgression? He is not halachically obligated. Several poskim have written that spiritual harm is caused only if there is a transgression in the act (mainly with regard to breastfeeding a baby and going by the Ketubot S and Shulchan Arba on breastfeeding a gentile). In any case, it depends on the question of whether the prohibition of stumbling is due to the spiritual harm. It is certainly possible that even if there is spiritual harm, then there is a point not to stumbling, but still this does not mean that there is no blind eye here. Think about a single Ivra Danhara. Looking at the harm, I would always expect there to be a prohibition in this, as in the case of the Ivra Danhara (although my fault is less, but I still create harm in the world with my own hands). And the same is true with regard to making him wicked and dying, looking at the harm, there is never any room to distinguish between wicked and righteous.

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