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Many times in our daily lives halachic questions arise and topical doubts arise.
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Sha'ari Ezra community and head of Beit Erzi HaLebanon, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in the Beit Midrash and outside of it.
And this week: following the severe attack that happened on Shabbat night in Neve Yaakov - is it permissible to carry a weapon on Shabbat?
Question
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Hello Rabbi.
Following the difficult events last Shabbat, and given the fact that many people's lives were saved thanks to citizens who had weapons and were thus able to neutralize the terrorists, I wanted to ask if it is permissible for those who have a license to carry weapons to take their weapons with them to the synagogue on Holy Shabbat?
Answer
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Hello to you.
The question here is divided into two questions.
One question: there is an assigned question here, if it is allowed to move a weapon at all.
And the second question is a question of removing the authority of the individual to the authority of the many in a place where there is no mixing.
In the book Kovats Tesuvots (HG Siman Na) Hagrish Eliashiv wrote that weapons are considered as tools whose craft is prohibited and it is permissible to shake it for the sake of one's body and place.
Let's explain things.
כתב הרמב"ם : אָסְרוּ חֲכָמִים לְטַלְטֵל מִקְצָת דְּבָרִים בְּשַׁבָּת כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁהוּא עוֹשֶׂה בְּחל. וּמִפְּנֵי מָה נָגְעוּ בְּאִסּוּר זֶה. אָמְרוּ וּמָה אִם הִזְהִירוּ נְבִיאִים וְצִוּוּ שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיֶה הִלּוּכְךָ בְּשַׁבָּת כְּהִלּוּכְךָ בְּחל וְלֹא שִׂיחַת הַשַּׁבָּת כְּשִׂיחַת החֹל שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: "וְדַבֵּר דָּבָר" קַל וָחֹמֶר שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיֶה טִלְטוּל בְּשַׁבָּת כְּטִלְטוּל בְּחל כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיֶה כְּיוֹם חֹל בְּעֵינָיו וְיָבוֹא לְהַגְבִּיהַּ וּלְתַקֵּן כֵּלִים מִפִּנָּה לְפִנָּה אוֹ מִבַּיִת לְבַיִת אוֹ לְהַצְנִיעַ אֲבָנִים וְכַיּוֹצֵא בָּהֶן שֶׁהֲרֵי הוּא בָּטֵל וְיוֹשֵׁב בְּבֵיתוֹ וִיבַקֵּשׁ דָּבָר שֶׁיִּתְעַסֵּק בּוֹ וְנִמְצָא שֶׁלֹּא שָׁבַת וּבִטֵּל הַטַּעַם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּתוֹרָה: "לְמַעַן יָנוּחַ". הראב"ד הוסיף
שגזרו Yes, out of fear that he might forget and take the thing that is shaking in his hand into the public domain.
And here there are several categories of assignee and for each category there are different laws and laws, and there are three types, but there are more.
Assigned due to the lack of a pocket, which is a tool that is careful not to be used for any other purpose than the use for which it was intended, for example a valuable phone, a Mila knife, and the like.
Assigned because of its body, and it is everything that is not a tool and is not food, such as trees and stones and the like.
Allocated from these two types are prohibited in any shaking in any way.
A tool that is made for prohibition, which is a special tool for use in a manner that is prohibited on Shabbat, and such as all types of telephones since they are prohibited from use on Shabbat.
This assigned type is allowed to shake for its body and location.
And we will return to our subject.
As we explained above, a weapon is a tool whose craft is prohibited and therefore it is permissible to move it for the purpose of one's body, including carrying it in order to be available for use in times of need.
Regarding the law of going out in the public domain, the Shulchan Aruch (Sim. 1:67) wrote: "No one goes out, neither with a sword, nor with a bow, nor with a curtain (interpretation of Magen), nor with swords, nor with a spear, nor with tools that are not jewelry, and if he goes out, he must commit a sin." In weapons since they are improperly removed from clothing, as explained by the Gerish Elyashiv (in the same answer above).
And here is Aruch HaShulchan (mark 1, section 1) of the opinion that the above-mentioned prohibition was only stated for mere human beings, but a soldier and a policeman and the like are allowed to carry weapons since they are considered to be their clothes, but the Gerish Elyashiv wrote that his words are not correct according to Halacha and therefore there is no permit for this.
And it was found
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that the only permit is to carry the weapon in a place where there is a possible security incident, then surely for the sake of monitoring people are allowed to do as much as necessary, and all this is in a city where there is no mixing, but in a city with mixing there is no prohibition to carry the weapon for self-defense if there is even a small risk for the attack.
David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuba Israel
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