Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

I wasn’t just being pedantic when I differentiated between “permitted” and “obligated”. There is a huge distinction which is very relevant to this discussion.

Like you pointed out, you are only allowed to be Choshesh, not mekabel. We are discussing someone who transgressed the halachah, and does believe it despite it being forbidden.

Is he OBLIGATED to remove himself from the Sakanah? If you would take your position, he has no knowledge of any danger, just an allowance to protect himself based on the information he has. But this doesn’t constitute a Halachic Mokom Sakanah. If, however, we would take the alternative position and say that lmaisah he believes it, then he is in a situation of sakanah and MUST remove himself.