[Avodah] ein shliach le-dvar aceriah

[Zev Sero]

On 28/05/2011 4:03 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:

> 1. The gemara "exonerates" one who sets up others to do a sin on the grounds that
> the other person shouldn't have listened. What about this case where the boys
> were mislead. Is the sender now guilty in bet din?

He's guilty of lifnei iver, but not of the actual crime.



> In the real world how would a Torah society treat Mafia leaders except for the answer
> of "dinei melech" which to me is a cop out.

According to dinei Torah the godfather is indeed innocent, so why should
you want to punish him?  But the fact is that, innocent though he is he's
a menace to society, so he'd probably be dealt with by "Makin ve'onshin
shelo min hadin", which is pretty much the same as dinei melech, but done
by BD.

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