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Volume 43: Number 78

Sun, 28 Dec 2025

• 1. Choices (Joel Rich)
• 2. karbanot? (Joel Rich)
• 3. Re: Choices (mgl...@gmail.com)

Dr. can switch to be off first 2 days of sukkot shift for a prior Friday 10
AM to 10 PM. There are a number of halachic issues but I?d like to focus on
two:

Is the affirmative choice to switch shifts comparable to affirmatively
putting yourself into a situation of ones versus not requesting anything
being considered a shev val taaseh and thus a less objectionable approach.
You might even consider this somewhat comparable to deciding whether to
throw the switch on the trolley.

Also, is there a comparison to the get out of jail free card? Perhaps by
switching shifts you have accelerated a violation of shabbat. Let?s say the
holiday is in two weeks, who knows what will happen in two weeks and maybe
no violation at all will occur.

Great question ? and why do different poskim weight different priorities
differently? Thoughts

KT
Joel Rich
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In OC 604 the shaar tzion quotes the chayei Adam saying that we don?t say
Karbanot on erev yk for the same reason that we don?t say lamenatzeach and
mizmor ltodah (The CA actually says it in the language of vnireh li ? how
do we relate to such statements by an acharon where the practice did not
exist before that)
Does anybody know if this is common practice?
KT
Joel Rich
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RJR:
Dr. can switch to be off first 2 days of sukkot shift for a prior Friday 10 AM to 10 PM. There are a number of halachic issues but I?d like to focus on two:
Is the affirmative choice to switch shifts comparable to affirmatively
putting yourself into a situation of ones versus not requesting anything
being considered a shev val taaseh and thus a less objectionable approach.
You might even consider this somewhat comparable to deciding whether to
throw the switch on the trolley.
Also, is there a comparison to the get out of jail free card? Perhaps by
switching shifts you have accelerated a violation of shabbat. Let?s say the
holiday is in two weeks, who knows what will happen in two weeks and maybe
no violation at all will occur.

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MYG:
On the context of the question - are we talking about someone with a heter
to work on Shabbos, or someone who may not? If he may, then it isn't
chillul Shabbos; if he may not, then why should we allow him to be makdim
the issur? Maybe, like you're saying, the hospital will close down and
he'll end up not working on Sukkos. 

But on your question about "the affirmative choice to switch shifts" being
"comparable to affirmatively putting yourself into a situation" - it's not
really doing that; the doctor already requested or okayed the Sukkos shifts
earlier, so it's his/her choice either way. (At least the way I understand
shift assignments to work based on the medical personnel in my family.)

KT,
MYG




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