[Avodah] Tamar Not Embarrassing Yehuda

[Zvi Lampel]

Meiri on Sotah 10b describes this saying as being said derech ha'a'ra, and
on Berachos 43b as being said derech tsachos.

He also gives the description of derech tsachos to three other statements
in Brachos, 10b, 55a, and 63b. Still another statement, on Brachos 55a, he
describes as being said derech ha'a'ra' .

Zvi Lampel


>
> From: "Jay F. Shachter" <jay at m5.chicago.il.us>
>> >> We are told that Tamar risked execution rather than publicly
>> >> embarrassing Yehuda.
>>
>> > Can we please stop taking these rhetorical statements literally?
>> >  no one is obliged to risk execution rather than publicly embarrass
>> > someone.
>>
>> https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1052125/rabbi-daniel-z-feldman/parshat-vayeishev-fourth-aliyah-timeless-lessons-of-yehudah-and-tamar/
>>
>> See above link. I am also bothered by this, but as Rabbi Feldman points
>> out, rishonim and acharonim somehow eschew taking the statement
>> merely bderech guzma. Sorry.
>>
>>
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