Can a Jew encourage a non-Jew to violate a mitzvah?

Sh’eilah / Question:

Is it wrong for a Jew to encourage a non-Jew to violate one of God’s commandments? And if not all, then some?

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T’shuvah / Answer:
 
If they are commandments specific to Jews (such as dietary ones), it’s fine to encourage non-Jews to them so long as the non-Jew isn’t serving as an agent to fulfill our own needs. For example, in the case of an animal intended as a kosher slaughter where there’s a mishap and the animal, while edible, is slaughtered in an unkosher manner, the meat may be sold to a non-Jew. An area where it is not permitted is in a case where the Jew asks the non-Jew to do something that would benefit the Jew on Shabbat— for example, if a Jew does not himself turn on or off lights, he may not ask a non-Jew to do it (if the non-Jew chooses to do it because he knows that the Jew could use lights, that’s fine). And, no one can ever encourage anyone to violate one of the seven Noahide mitzvot:
  1. Do not deny God.
  2. Do not blaspheme God.
  3. Do not murder.
  4. Do not engage in forbidden sexual acts (like incest).
  5. Do not steal.
  6. Do not eat of a live animal (while it is still alive).
  7. Establish courts and legal systems to ensure law, obedience, and civility.

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David Vaisberg, originally from Montreal and Mississauga, Canada, serves as Senior Rabbi at Temple B'nai Abraham in Livingston, NJ and lives in Maplewood, NJ with his family.

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