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southernbubby




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 07 2014, 9:46 am
http://www.jewishpress.com/ind.....2/04/

Here is an interesting 0p-ed by Elliot Resnick (who used to be a kid in my car pool back in the day) that states that a person could be entirely within the halacha but not be a very good person.
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debsey




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 07 2014, 9:57 am
southernbubby wrote:
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/whatever-happened-to-right-and-wrong/2014/12/04/

Here is an interesting 0p-ed by Elliot Resnick (who used to be a kid in my car pool back in the day) that states that a person could be entirely within the halacha but not be a very good person.


Dog bites man...not news. Man bites dog....news.
Of course you can be within halacha and yet still be a jerk.
That's what learning mussar is for!
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morah




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 07 2014, 10:01 am
This is nothing new. The Ramban had a term for this- naval birshut hatorah, a disgusting person within the bounds of the Torah.
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