– Q. Is it permitted to go on Shabbos to sit in a treife restaurant in honor of grandmother’s birthday if no treife will be consumed and no melacha done by the chareidi grandson?

A. As important and as a great mitzva the honoring of grandparents is, the above scenario is not permitted since it is at least a prohibited scene act (Ma’aras Ayin) and creates the appearance of transgression of severe prohibitions.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.