[Avodah] lifnei iver/kanaus

[Doron Beckerman]

RnCL writes:

>>Rav Henkin rejects this argument in the teshuva immediately following
(siman 48 of Chelek Sheni of Benei Banim) (clearly his correspondent had
responded to this effect) holding that in his view the one has nothing
to do with the other.  Starting from the language of the Torah (where
the one prohibition is phrased as lo signov stam, while the other is pen
yosif) and working through the various sources that discuss hitting a
talmid, he holds that while striking a talmid is mutar m'dina and its
justification, when done appropriately, can be found throughout the
sources, the taking of property has no source to permit (and he deems it
noteworthy that wherever the permission to strike a talmid is brought
down in the various sources, this is not anywhere coupled with a comment
that the halacha of lo signov can as a kal v'chomer be waived). <<

So if I were to ask R' Henkin, in a situation of a Rodef, where I have a
choice of either blinding him (Chavalah) or taking his money Al Menas
LeHachazir, to save the Nirdaf, that these are equally good options? Or,
based on the Pen Yosif/Lo Signov distinction, that it is better to blind
him?
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