[Avodah] Chilul haShem when NJ are the observers

[Elazar M. Teitz]

     RZev Sero wrote:

> And that is precisely where I am coming from. But of course anyone
> can claim that the "fifth chelek" supports him! What test is there?
> The fifth chelek cannot contradict the first four. And what is the
> fifth chelek anyway? It is mesoras yisroel. In this case, our mesorah
> is precisely what these people are doing, while those who object are
> all coming from an alien perspective.

     As I was taught, it was R. Yisroel Salanter who coined the expression "the fifth cheilek of Shulchan Aruch."  His definition of that cheilek was "vi tzu zein a mentch."

EMT

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