[Avodah] Fwd: Lashon Hara about non-Jews

[Doron Beckerman]

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From: Doron Beckerman <beck072 at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2007 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: Lashon Hara about non-Jews
To: avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org

>> I would personally say that it seems like the kind of loophole in a
d'oraita
that is often plugged by a d'rabanan.  <<

Source?

>> Perhaps because in a normal situation, we're a nation living in our own
land, and the only non-Jews around are gerei toshav, which I'm not sure, but
going to assume, about whom it is forbidden to speak lashon hara <<

He isn't included in Amecha or Amisecha in Mitzvos, so it isn't forbidden.

>> (I do know
that it is a command to love them - Mesechet Gerim chapter 3 says "love the
ger" includes the ger toshav). <<

I didn't see it there.

>> And perhaps a Jew who speaks lashon hara of a gentile, we can say the
same
thing about a Jew who takes advantage of a loophole in a monetary matter -
G-d knows how to settle the score. You didn't break the law per se, but so
what? It's like the guy who went psak-shopping for the heter, and so when he
got to Olam haBa, he was given a derelict shack - "according to some
opinions, this IS olam haba". <<

Ain HaNidon Domeh LaRaayah. There isn't one Posek who says its forbidden to
speak LH about non-Jews.
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