[Avodah] a troubling halacha

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

>
> On the contrary, if you know you are distressing the person then I
> don't believe the KSA would have you withhold the information either.
> The whole point is *not* to distress the person, and is a *fulfilment*
> of veahavta; if in a particular case veahavta requires the opposite of
> what it usually does, then so be it.
>
> The same applies to kibbud av va'em -- sometimes it *requires* behaving
> to parents in a way that it would usually forbid, e.g. shouting at a
> parent to make them take their medicine or get up and take necessary
> exercise.  The rule that one must normally not behave so is a general
> rule, geared to the general situation.
>
>
> --
> Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
> zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
>                                                  - Clarence Thomas
>
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II have run across some Mussar Sefarim that advise against being a "bad
news" monger, which tangentially relates with being a Lashon Horo.  Zev is
likely correct in his reasoning above that spreading bad news can inflict
pain - just as LH does.

Now telling people about a levaya might be an exception to the above,
because in that case one is prompting beople to do a mitzva



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