Forgiveness for Calling a Friend a Wicked Person, Son of a Wicked Person
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Question
I called my friend a wicked person, a wicked son of a wicked person, and his father, who was a righteous man, has passed away. Do I need to go to his grave to ask for forgiveness?
Answer
If the son is wicked, there is no need to go to his grave to ask forgiveness from his father, as it is customary to call a wicked person the son of a righteous person, a wicked son of a wicked person.
Source
The Rema writes in Choshen Mishpat, Siman 240, Paragraph 38: "One who calls his friend an informer, son of an informer, if he alone is an informer, is exempt. Similarly, if one calls a wicked person the son of a righteous person: wicked son of a wicked person." The Sma writes there, s"k 55: "As stated in Tractate Sanhedrin 52a: 'How do we call a wicked person the son of a righteous person a wicked son of a wicked person,' as it is said [Leviticus 21:9] 'And the daughter of a priest, if she begins to commit harlotry, she profanes her father,' see there."
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