Accidentally pushed
Hello Rabbi
I wanted to know your opinion on the issue of whether there is no rabbinic prohibition on accidental conduct, and since there is no prohibition, is it permissible to stumble another through a rabbinic prohibition (in the event that it is accidental for him)?
Happy and Kosher Passover
According to the Netiyam (C. Rold), yes, and many disagreed with him on this.
I think that this may be true for some of the prohibitions that are prohibitions of obedience, but certainly not for all. For example, the latter divide between two types of Shabbat. There are Shabbat prohibitions that are exceptions and decrees that will not reach the Torah, and there are Shabbats that are extensions of Torah practices. For example, choosing food from waste is a choice from the rabbis, and it is possible that it is an extension of a prohibition of choice and not a decree, but rather a decree of choosing waste from food. In other words, it has the problematic nature of a choice, but with less force. But riding a horse on the Sabbath (which was forbidden lest it tear a piece of grain) is certainly not an extension of the work of reaping (what is riding and reaping). There it is clearly a decree lest it reach the harvest and not a rabbinical harvest. From this you will understand that prohibitions of the first type seem to be prohibited both inadvertently and to cause trouble, since there is an inherent problem in them and not just an obligation to obey. In prohibitions of the second type, there is only an obligation to obey, and inadvertently it can be said that there is no disobedience here.
By the way, there is a similar phenomenon in Torah. There are several Torah laws that contain a “K” that are sufficient to be considered a “K”: firstborn, bastard, mourning, circumcision abroad, impurity in the “R” and more. The Rabbi at the end of Kiddushin wrote that it is permissible to make a person fail, certainly circumcised abroad, because from the perspective of the person who failed, it is no worse than satisfying and permissible for him. The Rabbi in an article (I once heard from Rabbi Hershel Schechter) wrote so regarding all the laws that are sufficient to be considered a “K”. And he explained that in these laws the forbidden element is awareness. It is not a condition for prohibition but rather the very definition of the offense. It is forbidden to eat something that the eater knows to be circumcised abroad. If he is not aware of it, there is no prohibition here (and not just an exemption of rape or accident).
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