“If such a six-paragraph teshuvah exists I will (figuratively) eat my hat.”
Pashuteh Yid – PLEASE, DON’T DO THAT!!!!!!! Then you won’t be able to daven in shul with the kanaim (JK!)
I thank you very much for your sensitivity to my feelings, but I want to assure you that I long since learned to let insults fall off me. The person who feels the need to make his point, not in a derech eretzdig way, but rather in a way designed to be especially derogatory and embarrassing to another person, is someone who may believe he knows know Mishnah Berurah, but definitely knows ZIP about mitzvos bein adam l’chavero.
And as I said before, I wonder what R’ Chaim Kanievsky would think of such a yid’s imprudent and intentionally rude remarks.
I realize that with the diversity on this blog, there are all types of emotions and religious fervor, or lack therof, that may abound. Still, let’s ask ourselves if what Hashem really wants is to see Jews who flamebait each other, just because they CAN, in the very erroneous belief that they are doing something noble for kovod haTorah? Or are they actually doing something very harmful, not only to those whom they intentionally treat with a lack of good middos, but even worse, to themsdelves? Every time we do an action that is clearly not L’shem Shamayim, but merely because we want to push someone’s buttons and show them up, or prove we are right and they are wrong (when it really is not so glatt in this particular case), it causes harm to the neshama of the person who does it.Instead of elevating oneself, it has chalilah the opposite effect.
There are some really terrific, articulate, witty, and nice people who post here (you, among them). And even when I personally do not agree with someone’s post, mikall melamdei hiskalti. If nothing else, I learn exactly what is the improper way to respond to someone with whom I might disagree.