[Avodah] Lifnei Iver/Kana'us

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

> 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...

R' MB: 
> Are the cases comparable lehalakhah?
> 
> First, the issurim are on a different level. Indecent signs cause
> hirhurei aveira, not aveira itself.

I'm not sure why the obscene magazine is more Aveirah than the sign - they
both cause Hirhurei Aveirah. The consequences might differ in quantity (IOW,
one sign, vs. every page of a magazine), but not qualitatively. 

KT,
MYG