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One of the themes that is discussed on our daf is “Ein shali’ah le-dvar aveira – a person cannot be made an agent to sin” – i.e. that a person must take responsibility for his own actions, and cannot blame another person for having told him to perform a forbidden act.
According to the Gemara in Massekhet Kiddushin (42b) the underlying principle of ein shali’ah le-dvar aveira is based on the fact that the messenger’s true obligation is to follow the directions of God, not of another person – divrei ha-rav ve-divrei ha-talmid, divrei me shom’im!
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