[Avodah] ein shliach le-dvar averiah

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon May 30 18:04:39 PDT 2011


On 30/05/2011 8:42 PM, T613K at aol.com wrote:

> In addition to lifnei iver, he is guilty of something much worse: by subjecting them to the rigors of Japanese prisons, he put those boys' lives at risk. What is the penalty for someone who delivers a fellow Jew into captivity among the goyim? And at the risk of their lives?

As the man said, "ein shliach lidvar aveira".  And in any case, it's
a very far grama; he wasn't the one who informed on them, after all.
I don't see how he could be chayav bedinei adam, for anything except
lifnei iver.

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