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Rape of opinions

שו”תCategory: HalachaRape of opinions
asked 3 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
You have written in several places that today’s secular people have a law of ‘rape in beliefs’ and for this reason, halakhic sanctions should not be applied to them (and not on the basis of a baby who was captured, etc.). But does a Jew who is ‘raped in beliefs’ receive the privileges of ‘doing something with you’ and ‘with you in Torah and in the mitzvot’, for example, should he be required to return a lost property or honor a secular father and mother? I am asking on a halakhic principle level and not on a practical or moral level.


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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago
A person who does something with you is not obligated to be a follower of the commandments by virtue of faith. If he is not wicked, the obligations that apply between a person and his fellow man apply to him.

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דניאל replied 3 years ago

I didn't quite understand - in practice he doesn't 'do anything with you' nor 'with you in Torah and mitzvot', so why would such charges apply to him?

מיכי Staff replied 3 years ago

Like a baby being carried away. Doing something to you is not a cold description of his actions. There has to be guilt.

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