Bais HaVaad ON THE PARSHA KI TAVO Lifnei Iver & Business Advice

Lifnei Iver - Virtual Stumbling Blocks By: Rabbi Yakov Borenstien Adapted from this week’s feature shiur given by Dayan Shmuel Fuerst Shlit”a In this week's parsha the Torah mentions thirteen curses that the Jews were commanded to pronounce upon individuals who violated certain prohibitions. One of them is the curse upon anyone that "places a stumbling block in front of a blind man." The Chofetz Chaim (end of pesicha), based on Chazal, explains that this curse not only applies to one who literally places a stumbling block before one who is blind, but it also applies to anyone who causes another person to sin. The Chofetz Chaim warns that these curses are no simple matter. He says that one who violated any one of the prohibitions on which there is a curse attached to it should worry that perhaps it was decreed in heaven that he is in cherem. This week's journal will focus on the prohibition against causing someone else to sin as it applies in monetary matters. Click here to listen to this week's feature audio shiur by Rav Shmuel Fuerst: