Honoring Parents Versus Prayer with a Minyan
Question
Does one need to go to a vacation cabin where there is no minyan available because of honoring one's parents?
Answer
Hello and blessings
There is no need.
When a father tells his son to do something, and by doing so he will lose the opportunity to perform a mitzvah, and he will then stumble in some transgression — the son has no mitzvah to listen to him.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, sec. 240:15
אמר לו אביו לעבור על דברי תורה, בין מצות עשה בין מצות לא תעשה, ואפילו מצוה של דבריהם, לא ישמע לו. — “If his father told him to transgress the words of the Torah, whether a positive commandment or a negative commandment, and even a rabbinic commandment, he should not listen to him.”
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