Q&A: A Halakhic Prohibition on Crossing a Bridge Built on the Sabbath
A Halakhic Prohibition on Crossing a Bridge Built on the Sabbath
Question
Honorable Rabbi,
Do you agree:
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Answer
They were careful not to say that it is halakhically forbidden to use it. They tried to pass along that lie without actually failing by stating an outright falsehood.
Discussion on Answer
Why is this permitted?
As is written in the Kitzur Shulchan Arukh, section 73, סעיף 6:
If non-Jews built a house for a Jew on the Sabbath in a forbidden manner, it is proper to be stringent and not enter it—and there are several distinctions in these laws.
Even an act done on the Sabbath becomes permitted to others after the Sabbath. And especially here, where it was done unintentionally or under compulsion by people who were like children captured among the nations.
As I recall, it is mentioned by the halakhic decisors that if a non-Jew built a house for a Jew on the Sabbath, it is fitting to be stringent and not enter it.
Why is it permitted to use it? Isn’t this deriving benefit from Sabbath desecration?