[Avodah] is it gezel?

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:10:09PM -0700, saul newman wrote:
: does the rental money become then treife gelt?

Every year I mention the problem of buying an esrog from someone who
offers a better price if you pay in cash. Last year I was able to shift
from "li nir'eh it's a problem". RHSchachter reports that according top
RJBSoloveitchik, helping the seller evade taxes in this way is lifnei iver
(deOraisa, not "just" the derabbanan of mesayeia) and THE ESROG IS PASUL.

Here, it would depend on how far from taxation you hold dina demalkhusa
extends. No?

Which means that taking down the ad is problematic, as you are in
a weird situation (discussed here in the past) where you would be
preventing something that even if your poseiq holds is an aveirah,
it's not open-and-shut that every poseiq would.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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