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

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

It was presented to us as more of the latter (#2).

KT,
YGB

On 2/24/2011 3:02 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.
>