Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

My most recent point wasn’t discussing this thread, it was a general response to your frustration about people repeating themselves. “We hit” wasn’t past tense, it was present participle (I think, but not clear on grammar rules).

I would like to understand what your point is, particularly with regards to safeik sakana and vadai sakana.

I don’t really know how to explain it better. If you are correct and although one believes it, for all intents and purposes we’ll pretend he doesn’t, then this is safeik sakanah. If my other tzad is right, then because he knows he is in danger, it constitutes vadai sakanah, even if he is not allowed to believe it. (Let’s agree that there are differences between sakeik and vadai, it makes no difference what the differences are.)

To me, considering it safek sakanah when he believes it wholeheartedly doesn’t sit right. Although I am unsure, like I explained in the opening post to this thread.

I don’t think extrapolating from there to my ‘Kovod haTorah’ scenario is that difficult.