Reply To: A Shabbos Desecrator Saying Vayechulu With the Congregation

Wolf: I believe Rav Schachter has mentioned that 4 and 5 shouldn’t be a problem. Those Gezeiros apply only for other people. If a Mechalel Shabbos B’farhesia himself makes food that he knows it Kosher (and touches wine that he knows he wasn’t Menasech) then he himself (and his immediate family, I think Rav Schachter said) are perfectly allowed to rely on themselves.

A. I fail to see why I (or my family) should suddenly be exempt from the dinim of yayin nesech or bishul yisroel simply because I am the one who happens to be the sinner in question.

B. If I were to have a strict ruling from a right-wing rav and then someone were to suggest I follow a left-wing lenient ruling, I would be slammed by the right-wing members of this board so fast that my head would spin. Is it right, then, that I should now adopt a right-wing position that is lenient after having received a stricter ruling?

The Wolf