Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

I think you (and I) had originally thought the issue (or one of the issues) was whether or not you’re allowed to be mekabel something even if it’s not l’toeles at the time but it becomes l’toeles later on.

That was also discussed, first mentioned here. The issue I presented in the opening post was not about something not-ltoeles becoming toeles, but about a different issue entirely. I quote:

Now that I believed that backstory, I witnessed firsthand the degradation, and had a licence/obligation to go and protest. But what I saw only meant anything because I believed something I had no licence to believe.

Do I say that על פי תורה, this knowledge is forbidden, and for all intents and purposes, I do not know this, or do we say that I was עובר the איסור – but now that I know it to be true, I witnessed a degradation of a Talmid Chochom?