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Re: Reaching Out for Help on Shabbos 29 Jun 2016 18:13 #291026

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Markz wrote on 29 Jun 2016 02:14:
Dovs Megilla on the previous page is appropriate reading year round

The following is noteworthy from today's chizuk email

c-The prohibition (of entering a Church) is suspended when dealing with a life-threatening (Sakono) situation i.e. addiction.




Markz, do we need to bring up the can you be mechalel Shabbos to help your addiction question again? All I see from Rabbi Kaganoff is that if one's addiction is life threatening, then they can violate issurim. When is it life threatening? Porn and mastrbation? No way. Phone sex, video chats? No way. Live acting out with risk of disease? Probably. Drug addiction and alcohol? Most likely.

But it is such a complicated question- and I say this not as a lay person but as having learned hilchos Shabbos בעיון רב with the sugyos, טור בית יוסף שולחן ערוך משנה ברורה פוסקים under a very prominent and world renown posek. Dov says some allow it- let each person ask a sheila. For the record, I ised to attend 12 step meetings in the sanctuary.

Re: Reaching Out for Help on Shabbos 29 Jun 2016 18:43 #291030

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When is it life threatening? Porn and masturbation? No way. Phone sex, video chats? No way. 


Unfortunately this is not the case. People have died and even killed as a result of these behaviors. Not an everyday occurrence, but it does happen. Rachmonoh litzlon.
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Re: Reaching Out for Help on Shabbos 08 Mar 2017 05:13 #307761

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Dov wrote on 22 Mar 2016 04:36:
Markz it seems you are stoned again; Cords is apparently going soft; and realsimcha is just a nice fellow and I can' think of anything crusty to say about him (yet).

Happy Purim!



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