[Avodah] yemach shmo

[T613K at aol.com]

From: Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org
>>in relation to an off-list  discussion where this expression was used about 
an O rabbi  who  espouses a doctrine that many other O rabbis would 
consider foolish but not  neccesarilly heretical,  i wonder if there are 
parameters for the use  of this expression about jews, frum or not.
eg  does it apply to Ben  Gurion? all non-Orthodox rabbis?  Rabbi Slifkin? 
the heads of  Meshichism? one side of a Rebbe succesion dispute about the  
other?<<




>>>>>
"Yemach shemo" should be reserved for the murderers of Jews, for  Amalek, 
Nazis and jihadis.  It should never be used for Jews unless they  are resha'im 
beyond a shadow of a doubt, like those Jews in the Middle Ages who  became 
meshumadim and then denounced the Talmud to the Christian authorities  and 
instigated the burning of Jewish books, men like Nicolas Donin in  Paris in 1240, 
Joshua Halorki in Spain in 1413 and Johannes Pfefferkorn in  Germany in 1509.  


--Toby Katz
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