Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

LU: I don’t have time to respond to everything you wrote, but these are my main points:

You wrote in your second to last post: “but now that I know it to be true”

The point is: You do NOT know it to be true.

I do now. During my ‘conversation’ with the “askan”, he admitted many of the accusations were true (although he tried to defend his position). There is no sofek anymore.

The only reason you are making the assumption that in that case, it would be mutar is because it’s to save your life, so you know that it must be permitted.

If you are not mekabel, you have no reason to believe yourself in any danger. (Probably doesn’t make a difference, not sure)

And I deliberately asked about being obligated, not permitted.

If the halacha says you can’t believe it, that means it is NOT true.

I’m still not convinced that being oiver Kabbalas Lashon Horo – even being mechuyav to get the information out of my system – will change my observational capacity as an avaryan who DID believe.