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ben: You didn’t address all of LevAryeh’s points. Shulchan Aruch rules in this matter l’halacha. That is relevant today. The following Igros Moshe is also speaking of today’s generation:
To Rav Elya Svei shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia,
Regarding the issue that there are some girls schools that are called Bais Yaakovs and the like, where the administration and the teachers of the school want to teach the girls Mishnayos: Behold, in the Rambam Talmud Torah 1:13 he rules like R. Eliezer in Sotah 20a, that you may not teach girls Torah. Yet he distinguishes between Torah shebal peh, which, if you teach to girls is as if you taught them tiflus, whereas Torah shebiksav is not as if you taught them tiflus, but l’chatchilah you shouldn’t teach it to them anyway. In any case, Mishnayos, which is Torah shebal peh, Chazal commanded us not to teach to girls, and if you do, it is as if you taught them Tiflus. Therefore, you should prevent them from doing this [teaching Mishnayos], with the exception of Pirkei Avos, which, because it discusses mussar and good midos you may teach it to them with explanations in order to awaken them to ahavas hatorah and good midos, but not any other Mesechta. And because this issue is simple I will end here with a blessing that you may spread Torah and Yiras Shamayim to the world.
Your friend,
Moshe Feinsten
LevAryehBoy explained it best.
bais yakov maidel: For the purposes you enumerated, you would be better served studying the Theory of Relativity than studying Talmud.
And I am truly disconcerted about your professed lack of faith without study. Threatening that you are done with Judaism if you can’t study areas that you seek, is not a path to permit what is outside normative practice.
I hereby humbly ask mechila from anyone and everyone that I heard or read loshon hora, rechilus or motzei shem ra about, on this forum or anywhere else, whether I was or wasn’t mekabel said loshon hora, rechilus or motzei shem ra.
Come on. Obviously my point is if he was the rightful owner of the diamonds and he was giving them to you of free and clear mind.
I understand that perhaps he shouldn’t just fix the straps for you without asking first. But it seems LAB objected to the very fact he corrected him at all. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
LAB: If he were hanging up diamond and pearls in your Sukka, which he was gifting to you, you wouldn’t call the cops. Your eyes would be wide opened as you profusely thanked him. So if he is beautifying your mitzvah of Tefilin or Sukkas why should you object more than if he were beautifying your wallet?
LAB: I disagree with you. If someone came to your Sukka, which was short on decorations, and added some decorations would you have flipped out too? So why here wouldn’t you be happy that he helped you beautify the mitzvah of tefilin?
It’s the same reason organizations plaster donors names over buildings or make grand dinners in honor of donors. It is vanity. But a vanity ??? ??? ?????? is a big money raiser since big shot donors like it. Thus it is the lesser of two evils. Better raise the desperately needed Tzedaka at the cost of licking up some folks vanity.
I would like to ask forgiveness for the many times I have even read loshon hora, something that unfortunately frequently gets posted, even if I did not believe it. After all, there is a sin to simply listen to it.
Of course the victim of this crime is the person(s) being spoken about. And more often than not that person is not even a participant of the forum. So asking forgiveness, even publicly, is unlikely to reach the only person(s) who can issue that mechila.
Which, of course, is the point in refraining from engaging in (listening or spreading) loshon hora in the first place, considering the extreme difficulty in obtaining absolution.
Write them a nice letter and leave it where they’ll find it. Or mail it to them.