Gets into trouble on Shabbat and gets along well on weekdays. What to do?
A dear Jewish friend of mine who founded and has been running a large medical center for many years that treats many patients.
Its doctors and staff are mostly non-Jewish.
He trusts them and they perform their duties excellently and save lives.
In addition to managing the medical center, he is also an ambulance driver in his city and does not give up shifts when it is his turn.
Sometimes it’s on Saturday.
When he drives an injured person or a woman giving birth on Shabbat
Of course, he doesn’t let the Gentile sitting with him in the ambulance drive, but rather he drives himself.
Because on Shabbat there is a law that prohibits trusting a Gentile with one’s life.
Our friend told him that it was absurd.
On weekdays, he trusts the Gentiles at the medical center and entrusts the lives of the Jews in their hands.
But on Shabbat, he suddenly doesn’t trust that Gentile and drives the ambulance himself…
My friend didn’t know what to say and claimed that what he was doing was funny, but that was the halacha and that’s what the rabbi told him.
What really needs to be done?
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There is a reason why the first ones should be done specifically by a Jew so that in other cases they will not come looking specifically for a Gentile and end up in danger.
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