# Non-Observant Jews

Source: Halachipedia: Non-Observant Jews

Link: [https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Non-Observant_Jews](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Non-Observant_Jews)

Exported: 2025-12-30

## Tinok Shenishba
1. Many of those who aren’t religious today are considered a tinok she’nishba because they were raised with faulty beliefs.¹ Other poskim are hesitant to apply tinok shenishba to many irreligious Jews today.²
2. We mourn over the loss of a Jew who wasn’t religious nowadays.³
## Related Pages
* Amirah LYisrael
* Lifnei_Iver
* Shiva

## References

¹: Rambam Mamrim 3:3, Darkei Moshe 159:3, Chazon Ish YD 2:28, Shivat Tzion Chadashot 23, Chazon Ovadia Aveilut v. 1 p. 538, Emet LYakov 345:218, Melamed Lhoil 29

²: See Igrot Moshe 2:50-51, 3:12. See at much greater length: [orot.ac.il](https://orot.ac.il/sites/default/files/9-10.pdf)

³: Chazon Ovadia Aveilut v. 1 p. 538. His three reasons are the perhaps he did teshuva (Yad Yitzchak 3:149), perhaps avoiding mourning would lead to ayvah (Maharshag YD 1:25:6), and perhaps he was a tinok she’nishba (Emet LYakov 345:218).