tenuk shenishbah
Question
In a post from last oct. you write that to say that non-observant Jews are tenuk shenishbah is ridiculous. Doesn't the Chazon Ish say so, based on a ruling from the Chovetz Chaim, in Hilchot Shechita? Also you write that today that we have television and internet the concept of Tinuk Shenishbah is less applicable than before. Could you explain this? I would have thought that the propaganda against Emuna and Torah that inundates us from all the information that television and internet provide would serve as a mitigating factor towards the liability of non observant Jews. Somewhat similiar to what the Chazon Ish also writes that today that we live in a time of spirituial darkness the Din of killing an Apicurus is no longer applicable, as opposed to earlier times when the Light of Emunah shined the responsibility was greater. It would seem that the advent of television and internet have only increased the spiritual darkness thus lessening the resonsibility of the non-observant Jew. I don't know if he's totally of the hook but it would seem that he's less than the old-time Reshaim.
Answer
Answered by Aaron AbadiThe Chazon Ish has a few places where he talks about it. His basic rule is that if the person knows that they're Jewish and they know that there are rules that they are expected to follow, that their grandparents did follow, then they are NOT Tinok Shenishbah. Killing an Apikores is not related to this. AA