Extra pleasure
Hello Rabbi,
On Shabbat, the question arose in our yeshiva whether there is a good deed in bringing pleasure to someone.
Let’s say there is a person who has never felt the pleasure of a cigarette, and has never heard of cigarettes adding pleasure. And you You kindly gave him cigarettes. Is this a good deed? (Let’s leave aside the health consequences of using them)
The doubt is that a good deed is intended to make up for a deficiency. But the creation of an entity is not a good (or bad) deed. If it had not been created, it would have continued to exist in its absence…. Is the creation of a new pleasure an addition to a person or a real creation?
The question can also be asked in another sense, for example, if someone who was blind from birth is doing good by healing him (assuming he has never heard of people who can see or a reality with sight that he would envy).
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And what if, say, someone is disgusted by food x, and I perform surgery on them so they can enjoy food x?
Ask him if it's worth the pain of the surgery.
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