About a year ago, as I prepared to begin a course of study in יורה דעה, I attempted to purchase a copy of the פרי חדש. The couple of seforim stores that I visited did not have a standalone copy available; the only copy I could find was one printed in the back of one […]
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Speaking Truth About Those In the World Of Truth
For S.B. Several years ago, we cited a favorite passage of my father from Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky’s אמת ליעקב, asserting that there is no prohibition of לשון הרע on the dead, and even הוצאת שם רע is only forbidden by Rabbinic institution, and not Biblically prohibited: [באמת] לשון הרע אינו אלא על החיים, ועל מתים […]