I am doing neither. It isn’t my place to do so, and the gemoro makes clear his tzidkus in other places. What I am saying is that to take him as an example of how to behave, one has to take on the conduct that made him praiseworthy. That is listed in gemoro taanis daf chof omud alef. As I said, if someone is on that madrega, they can do as he did.
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