[Avodah] newspapers and LH

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:47:35PM -0600, Daniel Israel wrote:
: > 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.

: Except that the CC seems to indicate that one who says LH is suspected 
: of speaking sheker.  So in a bedi'eved case where you shouldn't have 
: been told, it is LH, so you can't believe it, because a person who will 
: say LH would also say sheker, and therefore the can be no heter to act 
: on it.  So the gemara must be speaking of a case where it was muttar for 
: the person to tell you, and moreover, you know it was muttar.

Which is more probable -
the existence of a case in which the person is allowed to repeat it
to you
or
the existence of a case in which the person is allows to believe
something that should not have been told.

Each requires a corner case. Why is the possibility of it being allowed
to be retold so much more more likely?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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