[Avodah] Lifnei Iver/Kanaus

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RDB writes:
> On page 297, the following appears:
>  "Question: A Bachur has a radio in his room in Yeshiva, and 
> his friend  wants to break it and pay for it. Maran HaRav 
> Shach zt"l once said that  it is allowed for a child in his 
> home to take his parents' radio and  dispose of it.
> 
> Answer: He can break it, and not pay. I don't  know if he is 
> obligated to do so but there is an Inyan to do this.  <<
 
>>>>>
I asked a friend/neighbor of mine about this, knowing that he was very  close 
to Rav Schach, and he told me that this couldn't possibly be the whole  story 
and R' Schach couldn't have made a blanket statement that EVERYONE should  
break any radio he comes across, even if it belongs to his own parents.  He  
thinks that most likely R' Schach was asked a particular question by one  
particular person, possibly someone whose parents were in the habit of listening  to 
something genuinely immoral (radio porn?  is there such a thing?) and  that 
his answer was tailored to that individual in his particular  circumstances.  
(If he ever gave this teshuva at all, which who  knows?)
 
R'n CL wrote:

>>I note that Rav Henkin in Benei Banim (chelek sheni siman 47)  has a teshuva
on whether a school is permitted to take away objects from  their talmidim
and only return them after a number of days or weeks or if  they improve
their ways and he comes out very strongly against the  practice, on the
grounds that it is a violation of lo signov.   ....
....  The prime example (which
brings into focus the essence  of his teshuva) is of a student who plays with
a ball and is late for  shiur, where he holds that while he can be required
to stay late or  punished in other ways, taking away the ball, which is not
an intrinsically  assur object, is not permitted, even for a few days.<<
 
>>>>>
It seems to me that if the student handbook of that particular school  
stipulates that balls or cellphones or whatever will be confiscated if used  under 
named circumstances, then the student who knowingly breaks the rules has  
forfeited the forbidden article and has no legitimate complaint if  caught.  
 
 


--Toby  Katz
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