The following is a brief summary of some of thoughts said over by R' Frand this evening. I have attempted to reproduce these vorts to the best of my ability. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Frand.
The vort R' Frand said this evening did not relate to Parshas Acharei Mos and was more centered on today having been the 24th of Nissan and the yahrtzeit of Sasha Mindel Bas Ephraim Yehuda - the granddaughter of R' Shlomo Kluger.
R' Frand noted that R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach would say Kaddish for this girl on the 24th of Nissan and that R' Shlomo Kluger had requested in his introduction to the Sefer Nidrei Ziruzin that anyone who had benefited from his seforim should say Kaddish for his daughter if they could...and if not, they should pay an Ani to do so,=.
R' Frand quoted from the sefer which talks about how the granddaughter was set up with a man named R' Ya'akov Hertzberg and that people who made the shidduch were evil and he was upset at himself for not checking the family properly as they were evil as well. After the marriage they began to expert pressure on the granddaughter and tortured her. She was afflicted with a diseased lung within a few months of the marriage and went in for treatment, but the Kluger family was not told. By the time R' Shlomo found out and took her to a proper doctor it was too late and she died shortly thereafter. He writes that Hashem should avenge her blood against those who knew the character of this family and did not warn them not to allow their granddaughter not to marry into the family.
R' Frand noted that the Chofetz Chaim discusses the permissibility of saying Lashon Hara L'Toeles - for a purpose. A prime example is if you know that someone is looking to go into business with a person you know is dishonest. You should warn the potential victim, provided that you meet the Chofetz Chaim's five categories, including that you don't hate the person you are speaking about and would not have said these things independently.
R' Frand then quoted R' Yaakov Luban who noted that the pasuk in Kedoshim - לֹֽא־תֵלֵ֤ךְ רָכִיל֙ בְּעַמֶּ֔יךָ has a continuation לֹ֥א תַֽעֲמֹ֖ד עַל־דַּ֣ם רֵעֶ֑ךָ - that if you see a dangerous situation you should not keep your mouth shut, but rather should warn the potential victim.
R' Frand said that he had found this vort today and realized that it was the 24th of Nissan and that he said Kaddish for this girl at mincha.
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