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[Eli Turkel]

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There are two teshuvos where he  (RMF) mentions that the masses read journals
and thus sensitive or subtle issues should be kept out of them >>

With all dues respect I find this attitude naive. Joiurnals like the Journal
of Halacha and Contemporary Society, R. Bleich's halacha articles in
Tradition etc and volumes in Hebrew like Techumim quickly bring sensitive
issues in shutim to the greater public. To assume that something written in
a teshuva will remain in a small circle in the internet and Artscroll era is not
realistic.

Similarly responsible rabbis realize that something said to
individuals or a small
group can easily spread if it controversial enough. As the gemara says even
the birds can bring the stories. Similarly in the story with Buba bar Butra
and Herod Buba refuses to say anything damaging even when assured that
no one else is around
(as an aside I never understood that story - since Buba bar Butra was blind why
should he have even thought that the other person was someone innocent and
not a spy)


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Eli Turkel