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<DIV>What if you know a Jew is guilty of a serious crime and you have evidence of it. The man is on trial but without your testimony he will like get away with the crime. What do we do then? Do we stay quiet? Or do we volunteer our testimony?</DIV>
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<DIV>HM<BR><BR>Want Emes and Emunah in your life? <BR><BR>Try this: http://haemtza.blogspot.com/<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 12/22/09, Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org <I><Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org <Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org><BR>Subject: [Avodah] pidyon shvuyim<BR>To: avodah@aishdas.org<BR>Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 5:02 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1183896050><BR><FONT size=3>r matisyahu salomon was asked the following last week----</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=3>I chose to ask him about issues of financial impropriety in the Frum community. I asked him about Pidyon Shevuyim and if there is a mitzvah of pidyon shevuyim for frum criminals .... First he told me that for someone who is truly a criminal there would be no inyan of pidyon shevuyim but we have to be very quick not to judge. I then asked about a case where they were found guilty by a court (mr x) to which he responded that “being found guilty by a court does not mean anything” but we have to know for a fact that they are guilty. He then said that if we know that they are guilty there is no mitzvah of pidyon shevuyim. someone asked if people come out right away and call it anti Semitism is this a chilul hashem. He said that it a dangerous thing to do. Goyim also claim anti Semitism. I then asked what if we see
people being taken away in handcuffs on the news is this still not a chillul hashem if we do not have the facts to which he said that we have to be very careful not to jump to conclusions and we need to know who is creating the chilul hashem is it the guy getting arrested or the person arresting him. </FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=1><BR></FONT></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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