{"id":7801,"date":"2016-01-24T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2016-07-28T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:10:25","slug":"01-24-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/01-24-06\/","title":{"rendered":"06. A Child Is Comparable to a Sick Person<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sages forbade a Jew to ask a non-Jew to do melakha<\/em> for him on Shabbat. In contrast, if a child needs something very badly, his status is akin to that of one who is ill, for whom one may ask a non-Jew to do melakha<\/em>. For example, if a child has no food and is hungry, one may ask a non-Jew to cook for him. If he desperately needs light, one may ask a non-Jew to turn on a light for him (Rema 276:1; MB ad loc.<\/em> 6; see below 28:2). In general there is greater need to be lenient on behalf of babies, but one may be lenient even with very needy older children just as he would be lenient with a sick person.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A child who is not feeling well may take medicine even if the pain is mild. Just as the enactment prohibiting the use of medication on Shabbat does not apply to a sick person, so too it does not apply to a child. Thus, if necessary, one may put cream on a baby\u2019s skin, on condition that one does not spread it. Rather, one should simply place the cream on the skin. If the baby\u2019s diaper then causes the cream to spread, one does not violate any prohibition, since the cream was not applied in order to smooth the skin (see 14:5 above and 28:8 below).<\/p>\n

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[4]<\/a>. Some maintain that the comparison of children to the sick applies only until the age of two or three (Melamed Le-ho\u2019il<\/em> citing Sha\u2019agat Aryeh<\/em>; \u0124azon Ish<\/em> 59:3). Others maintain that it extends until age six (Tzitz Eliezer<\/em> 8:15:12:7, based on Mor U-ketzi\u2019a<\/em>). Still others say age nine or ten (SSK 37:2), while the most lenient say it extends until the age of bar or bat mitzva (Or Le-Tziyon <\/em>2:36:4). It would seem that everything depends on the specific details of the situation. Thus MB 276:6 states that if a child is \u201cvery needy,\u201d he has the status of a sick person. The younger the child is, the needier he is. A similar point is made by Nishmat Avraham<\/em> 328:57 and Or\u0125ot Shabbat<\/em> ch. 20 n. 162.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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