Is it an aveiro, is it a sin, to go through a red light?
ANSWER:
It is one of the very biggest sins. First of all, you're endangering your life, and a person that endangers his life should know that Hakadosh Baruch Hu, even though He saved the man's life He's going to collect his mitzvos from him. It'll cost him many years of tefillin, many years of tefilla, many years of krias shma, m'nakin lo m'zchuyosov; they'll deduct from his mitzvos when he put himself in danger.
In addition however, he put other people in danger; it's a very severe crime. It's considered as if he is a shofeich domim even though he didn't kill anybody. When he put himself in a situation where he could kill someone, it's considered as a shofeich domim potentially and that's a tremendous sin.
We have to understand that. People who are reckless in driving, are doing something that's the opposite of the will of Hashem and asidin litein es hadin, no question about that.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210
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