No, Joseph, the Torah does not want you to judge the person themselves based on their actions. You can’t say someone is a bad person just because they transgress something written in the Torah. People struggle with different things. It doesn’t make someone a bad person. You still have to love every Jew, and daven that they do teshuva, that’s all.
rabbiofberlin: Yes, many talmidim of Shlomo are very frum now. Was that because of what Shlomo taught them, or because of what other Rabbonim taught them later on? Yes, he was mekarev many people, but the ends don’t justify the means.
As for my comparison to the teshuva of Cholov Yisrael, I didn’t mean R’ Moshe’s psak wasn’t on the level. I wrote about the conversation in my yeshiva. People there said that yes, R’ Moshe said cholov stam is ok, but that fact that there’s a teshuva about it says something, and maybe we should be machmir. Personally, I’m not machmir, and I eat cholov stam. They said the same thing about Carlebach – the fact that R’ Moshe saw the need to write the teshuva down says something, and maybe we should be machmir. That’s all.
Just for the record, I personally don’t enjoy many of Carlebach’s songs. Many sound to me like funeral marches, and a lot of them sound the same to me. They have the same basic rhythm in them, so if you don’t like one, chances are you won’t like plenty of others. There a some which I do enjoy. However, I recognize who Shlomo was, and don’t look up to him as someone to emulate – except possibly in his level of ahavas Yisrael, although I wouldn’t show it the same way he did.