Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

I’m wondering if it had anything to do with the way I heard the story in the first place. I don’t want to say too many details because there are enough people who would easily work out what I am referring to, but when you hear choshuve people “Masiach Lefi Tumo” about specific stories in front of you, and you hear details of stories that eventually become public knowledge (court ledgers, recordings of court sessions, confessions), it is to me impossible not to believe it. Again, without details, I cannot explain to you how the details slipped my way were not toieles to me, although they were in context of toieles.

I have no doubt in my mind that the Rabbanim I mentioned above were telling the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth. It adds that this “askan” clearly had an agenda and rabbanim backing him up and was rationalising to himself that he was in the right.

I may not have been allowed to believe it, but I don’t think I was capable of not believing it.

And I still hold by the original question – in this scenario, where I was totally convinced of somebodys actions (assur as it was), I witnessed the humiliation of a Talmid Chochom. And I still wonder if I was entitled to protest that.