[Avodah] The Right Way to Give Tochachah

[cantorwolberg at cox.net]

The problem with the explanation of Mordechai Schiller
is that we are not living in Biblical times where G-d openly
approves of what we consider to be l'shem shamayim. This
kind of thinking can bring all the nuts out of the woodwork and
you can end up with people like Yigal Amir, Boruch Goldstein, M.D.,
(who had the highest honors from Y.U. in 1977) or the likes of Meir Kahane.

The right way to give tochacha is to show the whites of your teeth
in a smile and to hand out kugel and holler 'Good Shabbos" 
(as R' Micha so poignantly wrote).  Especially at this time of the year,
it behooves us to examine our own tzitzis and not those of others.

It takes a minute to lift up the Torah but it takes a lifetime for the Torah to lift us up.
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