<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">M<font face="monospace">eiri on Sotah 10b describes this saying as being said derech ha'a'ra, and on Berachos 43b as being said derech tsachos. </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">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' .<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace">Zvi Lampel</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="monospace"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace">From: "Jay F. Shachter" <<a href="mailto:jay@m5.chicago.il.us" target="_blank">jay@m5.chicago.il.us</a>><br>
>> We are told that Tamar risked execution rather than publicly<br>
>> embarrassing Yehuda.<br>
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> Can we please stop taking these rhetorical statements literally?<br>
> no one is obliged to risk execution rather than publicly embarrass<br>
> someone.<br>
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See above link. I am also bothered by this, but as Rabbi Feldman points<br>
out, rishonim and acharonim somehow eschew taking the statement<br>
merely bderech guzma. Sorry.</font><br><br>
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