Reply To: Lev Tahor Proclamation

The people who left LT are still frum; I don’t see any reason why multiple people would slander their community in such a dramatic way. What do they stand to gain?

I actually have some doubts about the letter myself; they’re a pretty small group…why would they print such incriminating documents and spread them around? I’m sure they could have just as easily spoke about it in public…. it’s a really dumb thing for them to do if someone chas veshalom acted on this “rule”. The leadership would be arrested right away – they can even be arrested now on counts of incitement, and from their craftiness in their ability to globe trot, I’m sure they know that this is the case.

It’s possible, from the testimony of the mother, that such things were taught, but the letter could be a forgery…. wouldn’t change our obligation to treat it as at least a safek pikuach nefesh and safek rodfim.