Is it permissible to curse the Haredim?
“The light of Meroz, the light of Meroz, cursed are its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord with the mighty ones.”
The prophetess Deborah repeatedly curses the Jews of Meroz because they did not come to fight.
Are we also allowed to define the ultra-Orthodox as cursed?
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Rabbi Micha Shlita taught that a person should be judged according to his own system, and since the Haredim act according to their system that the army is a spiritually dangerous place (a system that is quite appropriate to reality) and therefore those who are at a high spiritual level are forbidden from enlisting, they are not cursed, but at most are mistaken.
Even if they have great reasons not to enlist, it is their duty to find alternatives and solutions (for example, volunteer to wash stairs, demand that a higher tax be enacted for them, refrain from voting for the Knesset, act with their enormous political power against the army to reduce the spiritual danger, etc.). The absolute and blatant parasitism makes them miserable and extremely thieving bastards.
Our rabbi also instructed in the same column that a person can be judged on his positions if, in our opinion, he should have realized that he was wrong. The fact that you declare a position does not constitute complete exemption. The Nazis also had a position.
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