Thursday, November 5, 2015
Thurs Sotah 10
The Gemara says that it's better to have yourself thrown into a furnace rather than embarrassing someone.
Tosfos points out that this is one of the three things for someone to go to gehenim without ever coming up.
Tosfos asks: why do we don't consider this as one of the Aveiros that one needs to give his life for?
Tosfos answers: we only count those sins that the Torah explicitly mentions. The Torah never explicitly expounded on the sin of embarrassing someone in public.