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Inviter quelqu'un à Shabbat

Inviter quelqu'un à Shabbat

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Can I invite someone for Shabbat when I know they will drive home afterwards? >> First of all, inviting someone is always good, it's always a positive thing. Thanks to this, they will discover the pleasure of Shabbat and, furthermore, as long as they are at my place during Shabbat, they won't be on their phone, they won't be at the movies, they won't be in their car, and thus they will avoid committing other prohibitions. But on the other hand, there are two prohibitions.

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Arabic. Can I invite someone for Shabbat when I know they will drive home afterwards? >> First of all, inviting someone is always good, it's always a positive thing. Thanks to this, they will discover the pleasure of Shabbat and, furthermore, as long as they are at my place during Shabbat, they won't be on their phone, they won't be at the movies, they won't be in their car, and thus they will avoid committing other prohibitions.

But on the other hand, there are two prohibitions. Causing someone to do...The second problem which is "Lifnei Iver," but in this case, since they would have committed the transgression anyway, we cannot speak of the prohibition of "Lifnei Iver." However, there remains the problem of "Meseiya," not helping or encouraging someone to commit a transgression, and to avoid this problem, according to all opinions, the best thing, and by far the best thing to do, is to offer them to come sleep at my place. A proposal that theoretically they could accept, which means not in a room with 10 other people, and if they refuse, it will be their problem and no longer mine, and it is by far the best thing to do.