[Avodah] Any problem with reporting as part of a shiur summary

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:50:06PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Rich, Joel wrote:
>>> that the maggid shiur (a well respected talmid chacham) in discussing 
>>> whether there is an issue of hasagat gvul singing a song someone else 
>>> wrote and copyrighted, said he doesn't believe people would "write 
>>> songs that voices never shared" ? ...
 
>> Those who would think it insulting wouldn't recognise the phrase in the
>> first place, and so wouldn't learn anything "derogatory" from your
>> summary.

> How do you picture that conversation going lema'aseh? One makes the
> comment, they hear and don't understand it, and they simply ignore
> their confusion?

What confusion?  If I had read RJR's summary of the lecture, including
that phrase, I'd simply think it a pretty turn of phrase that the
maggid shiur used, or that RJR had added in his summary; perhaps they
came up with it themselves, or perhaps they'd read it somewhere.
I might even file it away for my own use.  But it wouldn't occur to me
that it was a famous quote, let alone that it was quoted from a source
that I considered tamei.  It was only RJR's question about the phrase
that led me to look it up.  (I'm so ignorant of this particular genre
that when RJR referred to S&G I briefly wondered whether it was a typo
for G&S...)


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