Stealing Someone's Sleep
If someone says ‘Wake me up at 7am,” a case where the sleeper explicitly requested that he or she be woken, there are no halachic issues. However, to wake a person up for no apparent reason constitutes a halachic prohibition. Join Rabbi Dovid Fink as he explores the fascinating halachic discussion on stealing someone’s sleep.
Stealing Someone's Sleep: Stealing Someone’s Sleep
The halachot of stealing (גזל) have to do with swiping, pilfering, pinching or damaging someone’s physical property.
Does waking someone up fall under the rubric of stealing (גזל)?
A source sheet is available through the links in both WORD format and pdf. In class we will translate and explain the sources.
In addition to being one of Rabbi Brovender's first students, Rabbi Dovid Fink is an outstanding expertﾠand teacher of Halacha. Rabbi Fink received his Rabbinic ordination from ITRI and the Mir and was awarded his Ph.D in Semitic Languages and Linguistics from Yale University. Rav Fink has taught thousands of students from all over the world for over 35 years.