Q&A: A practical difference regarding whether Sabbath prohibitions are suspended or merely overridden
A practical difference regarding whether Sabbath prohibitions are suspended or merely overridden.
Question
In the third lesson on conceptual Talmudic analysis, the Rabbi explained why the common practical differences are not really practical differences.
But isn’t there a practical difference in a case of benefiting from Sabbath desecration? If the Sabbath prohibition is merely overridden, then if another person benefits from the result of an act done to save lives, he would be violating a prohibition, because in the end that person did desecrate the Sabbath, even though he was allowed to. But if it is fully suspended, then it would not be forbidden to benefit from a side-result of an act of lifesaving.
Answer
That is really not a necessary practical difference. Simply speaking, if it was permitted, then it is not considered a Sabbath violation product, unless he did more than was necessary, in which case it is forbidden even if the prohibition was fully suspended.