Friday, June 1, 2018

halacha - BT emailing non-observant family on Friday afternoon


A given person is Shabbat-observant; his/her immediate and extended family is not.


May this individual write an email to his/her family (who live in Israel) when it is before Shabbat (where s/he currently lives), knowing full well that it is already Shabbat in Israel and that said family will likely read and reply to said email that night (= on Shabbat)?




Answer



Partial answer: There is no Shabbos problem of sending it even if it is already Shabbos where the recipient is (see last paragraph here).


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