Lightb,
Ahavas Yisrael always.
Good words.
Just don’t confuse loving with emulating.
Be’avonoseinu harabim we have been stuck in a bitter galus for many centuries. Many members of Yisrael are, tragically, not Shomer Shabbos, not Shomrei Torah u’Mitzvos, and have lost their Emunah.
We still have to love them.
At the same time we have to be clear, to ourselves and to others, that we neither love the way they behave, nor subscribe to their beliefs (or lack thereof).
It’s not up to us to choose which members of Klal Yisrael to love. We love them all indiscriminately and without judgment.
It is most certainly up to us to decide which members of the Klal to learn from, to follow, and to interact with socially.
Joseph’s last paragraph is a gem of a paragraph!
Read it two or three times before you move on.
(I did!)