Don’t Put a Stumbling Block Before the Blind
G-d says in the Torah (Leviticus 19:14), “You shall not… put a stumbling block before the blind”. In this video, Rabbi Aaron Raskin explains the true meaning.
This verse does not have the status of a commandment for Gentiles. However, it logically applies to all people as a righteous moral principle.
(See The Divine Code, by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, Part I, topic 3:8.)
For Gentiles, the actions which are forbidden for them to do on account of “putting a stumbling block” arise from offshoots of the 7 Noahide Commandments. For example, deliberately leading a person to do something which could cause him physical harm is forbidden as offshoot of the Noahide commandment not to murder or injure. Likewise, deliberately leading a person to do something which could cause him a financial loss is forbidden as an offshoot of the Noahide commandment not to steal.
Another category that applies for Gentiles is not to lead a person to do something that violates one his commandments. This is forbidden as an offshoot of the Noahide commandment to establish a system of justice.
These aspects of “putting a stumbling block” that are forbidden for Gentiles are discussed in The Divine Code – for example, in: Part I, topics 4:6-8; Part II, topic 5:9; Part V, topics 6.8 and 7:2; Part VI, topics 4:14-15 and 6:4,7; and Part VIII, topic 2:8. (Most of those discussions are in the footnotes to those topics.)
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