[Avodah] Ein shliach lidvar aveirah

[Zev Sero]

On 1/06/2011 12:13 PM, eliezere at aol.com wrote:
> unlike lifnei iver, where the victim should have been more distrustful

Why should a blind person suspect that someone has put a brick in his
path?  Why should someone ignorant on some topic suspect that the advice
a kind "expert" has given him is bad?  (I am using lifnei iver in its
original sense, as per Rashi, not in the sense of leading someone to sin.
I don't believe carrying the shipment to Japan was a sin, but it was a
terrible idea, and the person who gave them that idea transgressed lifnei
iver, since he knew they were as ignorant of the danger as a blind man is
ignorant of what lies in his path.)

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