[Avodah] yeihareig val yaavor

[Zev Sero]

On 2/07/2012 11:37 AM, saul newman wrote:
> how do we treat those who have violated those principles? is their
> any practical behaviour we must comport to, for a known murderer,
> adulterer, or one who did any act under the rubric of avodah zara?

No more than for other aveiros.  "Yehareg ve'al ya'avor" doesn't make
an avera more severe; chilul shabbos (issur skila) is a worse aveirah
than murder (issur hereg) let alone nidah (issur kares), let alone mere
avizrayhu that get makos mardus, but they are all YVY and shabbos is not.
People have a tendency to treat these averos as "the Big Three", or even
as "Cardinal sins", but they are not.  They are merely the list of cases
to which the mitzvah of kiddush haShem applies even shelo bish'as hashmad;
bis'as hashmad they are no different from arkesa dim'saana.


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