- Q. Dear Rabbi, I much appreciate your work on Ask The Rabbi and the variety of questions your answer. (etc.). I’m a lawyer working for a company that also advocates and defends criminals of all kinds. Since I’m religious, I tend to help whenever possible the Jewish clients of our company and help all the way, especially if they are frum.
I have a number of questions. First of all, as I was just reading in your shailos the great importance of the mitzva of Bikur Cholim. Is there an equivalent mitzva for “Bikur Asurim” or visiting the ones imprisoned in jail, and if not why not?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that our sages did not establish that there should be an equivalent important and of the essence of “Bikur Asurim” as we have “Bikur Cholim,” since after all the person imprisoned in jail has in our societies has likely done a crime or acted likely wrong to be sanctioned and warrant imprisonment.
Yet one that is able to provide help should certainly do so.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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