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Chortkov
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yekke: there are some who believe that everyone in the world should be learning and not working. you think they are wrong but you need to be considerate and tolerant of this view even if you disagree and think its wrong.

There is nobody who says that somebody who has no bread to put on the table should still learn except for R’ Shimon Bar Yochai, about whom the gemoro says that “rov” of us are not on the Madreiga to follow. Anybody who can learn is absolutely ?????? to.

I don’t think ‘tolerant’ is the right term. Something which is wrong is wrong, and there is no such thing as accepting wrong shittas. You are correct – as I pointed out before – that a poster being wrong does not give an allowance to another poster to be aggressive, antagonistic or rude, nor for it to develop into a personal feud. But it does give one an allowance – definitely on a blog like this – for one to state his own opinion and perhaps to debate it. In ‘real life’, often it is more prudent to keep one’s opinion to oneself, for it could be counterproductive to offer one’s own opinion of things. But on a blog like this, where posts are put on simply so that other people should see them, it is only right to point out if something is wrong. Again, in a polite and torahdike fashion, of course.