<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1986804921"><div id="yiv570659797"><div id="yiv2077138942">I heard (second hand) that a big Rov and Dayan in my town recently spoke in front of a number of people and told them that a certain person had the din of a moser. The Rov (allegedly) said that it was a clear-cut case in SA, that he was chayav mitah, and that if he had been living in New York, he would be dead already. <br><br>I was quite taken back when I heard this and wondered: 1. Why would the Rov tell that to a group of people? If in fact he holds that way (I heard it being told over in the presence of the Rabbi of my shul) then why advertise it? If a hothead acted on it, would blood, CV, be on the Rov/Dayan's head? 2. I do not know if the Rov consulted with any other Dayanim, but wouldn't at a minimum a Beis Din of 3 be necessary for
such a life and death
pronouncment? 3. We do not have a Sanhedrin nowadays that can pasken on such serious issues: why and to what lengths did the Chachamim empower post-Sanhedrin authorities to decide on things like this? 4. Should such pronouncements be discouraged, in light of the fact that Yigal Amir's assasination of Yitzchak Rabin was possibly at the least, fueled by such din moser talk? HB<br></div></div></div></td></tr></table>