<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Doron Beckerman</b> <<a href="mailto:beck072@gmail.com">beck072@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Dec 28, 2007 12:34 AM
<br>Subject: Re: Lashon Hara about non-Jews<br>To: <a href="mailto:avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org">avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org</a><br><br></span>
<div>>> I would personally say that it seems like the kind of loophole in a d'oraita<br>that is often plugged by a d'rabanan. <<</div>
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<div>Source?</div>
<div><br>>> Perhaps because in a normal situation, we're a nation living in our own<br>land, and the only non-Jews around are gerei toshav, which I'm not sure, but<br>going to assume, about whom it is forbidden to speak lashon hara <<
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<div>He isn't included in Amecha or Amisecha in Mitzvos, so it isn't forbidden.</div>
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<div>>> (I do know<br>that it is a command to love them - Mesechet Gerim chapter 3 says "love the<br>ger" includes the ger toshav). <<</div>
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<div>I didn't see it there.</div>
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<div>>> And perhaps a Jew who speaks lashon hara of a gentile, we can say the same<br>thing about a Jew who takes advantage of a loophole in a monetary matter -<br>G-d knows how to settle the score. You didn't break the law per se, but so
<br>what? It's like the guy who went psak-shopping for the heter, and so when he<br>got to Olam haBa, he was given a derelict shack - "according to some<br>opinions, this IS olam haba". <<</div>
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<div>Ain HaNidon Domeh LaRaayah. There isn't one Posek who says its forbidden to speak LH about non-Jews.<br><br> </div>