[Avodah] About Lashon Hara about non-Jews

[Elazar M. Teitz]

RMichael Makovi wrote:

<[A]ccording to Mesechet Gerim 3:2, Vayikra 19:33 (love the ger) applies to a ger toshav.>

To which, I wrote:

<My Shas must be defective. It doesn't appear there, nor anywhere else
in Maseches Geirim.>

RMM responded:

<I checked the Soncino Minor Tractates (translation) as well as an old
Vilna-type edition; it was in both. Actually, it only quotes Vayikra
19:33 and another pasuk earlier in Vayikra 19 and a pasuk from Devarim
(24?), to the effect of "don't abuse him" etc., but it does not cite
the sources of these pesukim (viz. Vayikra x:y, etc.), nor does it
quote the "love the ger" part of the pasuk, so you have to know that
it is quoting a "love the ger" pasuk.>

     What it says is that WRT a ger toshav, "v'ov'rin alav al bal toneh ubal ta'ashok ubal talin p'ulat sachir." The last two are both from Vayikra 19:13.  The first is _not_ from 19:33, where "va'ahavtem es hager" is mentioned.  In that pasuk, the wording is "lo sonu," in the plural.  Rather, the text refers to Sh'mos 22:20, which reads "v'ger lo soneh," in the singular, matching the wording of Maseches Geirim -- and there is no mention there about loving the ger.

     Even had RMM not been mistaken, and the source would have been as he had assumed, it is only an inference on his part that if 19:33 (lo sonu) applies, so to does 19:34 (v'ahavta lo kamocha).  To present that inference as though it was explicit in the text is a gross misrepresentation.

EMT
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