Regarding the status of a Sabbath desecrator (mekoshesh) for yibum (levirate marriage)

Date: 17 Shevat 5595

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi David

Description

The responsum discusses whether the wife of the 'mekoshesh' (the man who gathered wood on Shabbat) was subject to yibum, considering the halachic status of a public Sabbath desecrator as an apostate.

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer Collected §54

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