[Avodah] newspapers and LH

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:31:12AM -0700, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: The end of the 3rd perek of Megillah (25b) seems to say that if it is known
: that someone is an adulterer that it is permissible to embarrass them in
: public....

: Unless I'm understanding the Gemarrah incorrectly, it seems that there are
: some halachically permissible ways for spreading news about people in this
: way...

It could be the pesaq is bedi'eved -- you shouldn't have been told,
but if you were... Hil' geneivah have many laws about what to do with
stolen objects; that doesn't imply that there is a case where theft
is permissable.

This too implies a loophole in hil' shemiras halashon, just a much
smaller one. Limited to a case where one may believe it once someone else
(even if wrongly) spread it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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