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But when someone makes an aveirah available, the aveirah is the stumbling block. The aveirah has its own temptations. The person who made it available is not being trusted at all. Thus the prohibition in this scenario is for simply making the aveirah available. The person who made the aveirah available did not entice the sinner or advise him to sin; he only made it accessible. However, the Torah prohibited making otherwise inaccessible aveiros accessible to others. This can only apply to aveiros that the Torah has prohibited, not to rabbinically- prohibited aveiros.

If someone were to make a bad deal available to another person without advising him in any way to take the deal, he would not be transgressing the prohibition of lifnei iver. Similarly, if one makes a rabbinic prohibition available, he will not have transgressed the prohibition of lifnei iver.

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On the other hand, if someone advises another person to transgress a rabbinic prohibition, he will have violated the prohibition of lifnei iver because it is surely considered bad advice to violate a rabbinic transgression.


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Rabbi Fuchs learned in Yeshivas Toras Moshe, where he became a close talmid of Rav Michel Shurkin, shlit”a. While he was there he received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlit”a. He then learned in Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and became a close talmid of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, zt”l. Rabbi Fuchs received semicha from the Mirrer Yeshiva as well. After Rav Shmuel’s petira Rabbi Fuchs learned in Bais Hatalmud Kollel for six years. He is currently a Shoel Umaishiv in Yeshivas Beis Meir in Lakewood, and a Torah editor and weekly columnist at The Jewish Press.