Daily Chafetz Chaim – Day 257
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Daily Chafetz Chaim – Day 257
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You voted no in a secret ballot — so can you tell the angry crowd it wasn't your doing?
Rabbi Klapper brings the Chofetz Chaim's exception to yesterday's heter of saying I didn't do it. Picture a committee of seven voting privately; you voted no, but the majority voted yes, and the decision hurts people. When one of them asks how the committee voted yes, you may not say I didn't vote yes to distance yourself. The reason: the committee as a whole makes the decision. Just as in beis din, where a dayan who ruled in the minority is still bound to the ruling the court as a whole issues, so the dissenting committee member shares responsibility — and denying his part would itself be rechilus.
Join us tomorrow for the next real-life example.
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