<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The problem with the explanation of Mordechai Schiller<div>is that we are not living in Biblical times where G-d openly</div><div>approves of what we consider to be l'shem shamayim. This</div><div>kind of thinking can bring all the nuts out of the woodwork and</div><div>you can end up with people like Yigal Amir, Boruch Goldstein, M.D.,</div><div>(who had the highest honors from Y.U. in 1977) or the likes of Meir Kahane.</div><div><br></div><div>The right way to give tochacha is to show the whites of your teeth</div><div>in a smile and to hand out kugel and holler 'Good Shabbos" </div><div>(as R' Micha so poignantly wrote). Especially at this time of the year,</div><div>it behooves us to examine our own tzitzis and not those of others.</div><div><br></div><div><i>It takes a minute to lift up the Torah but it takes a lifetime for the Torah to lift us up.</i></div></body></html>