[Avodah] torture in halacha???

[Zev Sero]

On 15/05/2012 10:00 AM, hankman wrote:
> where the father (rebbe) went beyond simple hitting into territory we would call abusive and most would argue without permission - then perhaps we would part ways. I assume RZS would argue that it is no longer a permitted hitting and therefore now asur.

That is the very case of "pen yosif" from which we learn that it's
forbidden to hit people.

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