[Avodah] Fwd: Rav Chazkel Levenstein On The Capture Of Adolf Eichmamm ym"s

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:30:24AM -0500, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote:
> The variation on this theme that I heard, from Rabbi Meir Schlesinger,  
> is that Reb Chatzkel if you gave your typical yeshiva bachur 007 license  
> to kill, with exemption from punishment in both this world and the next,  
> he would become a serial killer (perhaps he said mass murderer - it  
> amounts to the same thing).

I'm curious to know RCL's intent. I could read this at least two ways:

1- Kol hagadol michaveiro, yitzro gadol heimenu

2- Yeshiva bachurim get used to positing abstract rules without a
   general gefeel for morality, and thus would do evil if there were
   no rule against it.

And that's far from exhausting the possibilities.

-Micha

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