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From: samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet)
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Subject: Escalating the Egg
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 00:28:52 EST
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> >Whoever tosses eggs at Jews is, in some respect, a messenger from
> >heaven. To  some  readers this may sound "heretical", but I  hope
> >they will try to react in a less ovular manner. [A.I. SAMET]
> 
>        Whoever throws eggs at Jews is a flaming anti-semite.  You've
>        gone irrational, Yitzhak.  "Ad lo yadah" [not being able to
>        tell Haman apart from Mordechai] is NOT A COMMANDMENT FOR THE
>        ENTIRE YEAR.  Anyone claiming Haman to be a messenger of G-d
>        is delerious.  It's equivalent to believing that Amalek (of which
>        the Torah has a lot to say) was also a messenger of G-d's...
> bill peter     

Hmm! Sounds a bit like an anti-"Sametite". Is it because I criticized
his  crude  dumping on  Reb Moshe and the Haredim? If bill were a non-Jew
we would quickly label  that attack as antisemitic. What do we call a Jew
who stoops to such behavior?

For the record:
Of course Haman was a messenger from Hashem. That's one of the basic insights
in "ad lo yadah". That doesn't contradict his being an anti-semite. I made
clear that I was not advocating non-reaction to these people. (I did report
the license number to the police.) The point is that the Torah expects us
to probe beyond the immediate superficial events (the stick, in the Chafetz
Chaim's parable) to discover their deeper meaning.

					Yitzchok Samet