Trains Planes and Automobiles
Question
Rabbi, I appreciate your responses to my last two questions..here is another one. If I am working in the city and am trying to make a train back to deal....but miss it.... 1) Can I get on a train before shabbat -- pay for the ticket -- and get off at my stop if after shabbat started (assuming there is a kosher Eiruv) and walk home from the station, if there is no kosher Eiruv -- stash the bag somewhere so as not to carry on shabbat? Can we apply notions of Shabbat elevator to a train/subway? 2) If I get on a train scheduled to arrive before shabbat - but gets delayed -- do I need to get off the train as soon as shabbat begins? or can I continue onward and get off at my stop? 3) do any of the answers to these questions depend on alternatives -- i.e., getting off the train somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with no place to sleep or eat? Thanks....
Answer
Answered by Aaron AbadiToo many variables. Leave with enough time to get home and then some. In the case of #2, stay on the train. AA