Payment for a Building Committee Violating Shabbat | Sheilot

Payment for a Building Committee Violating Shabbat

Question

Is it permissible to pay for a building committee in a building that has a camera operating on Shabbat?

Answer

It is permissible.

Because one can stipulate that their payment is for the permissible actions of the committee.

Answered 3 July 2022 How answers are reviewed
Rabbi Israel Cohen
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source

See Choshen Mishpat 161 and Orach Chaim, Siman 245.

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