[Avodah] Lifnei Iver/Kana'us

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, August 12, 2007 3:11 pm, R Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: There is a discussion on Areivim now about the merits of a Rebbe who
: supposedly ripped an indecent sign off the interior of a bus.... [L]et
: me reformulate the question: Your Jewish neighbor's mail is
: inadvertently delivered to your home, and among the rest of the mail
: is an obscene magazine. The assumption here is that he will never know
: if you don't give it to him. Do you...

Are the cases comparable lehalakhah?

First, the issurim are on a different level. Indecent signs cause
hirhurei aveira, not aveira itself.

Second, the value of tochakhah requires knowing (among many other
things) how it will be received. The otherwise frum neighbor who has a
runaway ta'avah is more reachable than Israeli society at large.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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