To be snatched and held in honor of the Rebbe
It is accepted in the world that those who steal are likely to be kidnapped.
Anyone who underestimates someone may be kidnapped.
This may not be something worthy, but reality shows that this is the reality, and we need to take this into account in advance.
If a certain Hasidism thinks that someone from another Hasidism has disrespected their Rebbe, and according to their style, it seems to them that it is appropriate and honorable to lynch and riot in the other Hasidism (and not in the specific person who, in their opinion, disrespected their Rebbe), is this completely condemnable?
Or is it reasonable to sneak back in?
(Where violence is not shameful)
What is this nonsense?
Whoever insults me is allowed to insult me back. (And some say it is a mitzvah)
I know that he insulted me.
In places where there is no culture of searching for the individual who committed an injustice and insults him directly, but the accepted culture is that of the collective guilt, meaning: if a Hasid from any Hasidic sect insulted my Rebbe, then the Hasidic sect to which the attacker belongs has attacked, who?
Not the Rebbe, but my Hasidic sect, meaning the collective.
Am I part of that rule, which is actually called "I was insulted," and am I allowed to insult back any individual from that Hasidic sect who attacks me that happens to come my way?
This is the principle of whoever insults me, I am allowed (and commanded) to insult him twice as much. Only it is not an individual against an individual but a public against a public.
And the principle that it is a public against a public and not an individual against an individual is also accepted by the party who insulted first, meaning: the insult is known.
So it is okay to steal from any random Hasid from the opposing Hasidism because they stole from my Hasidism.
Does the Rabbi agree?
One more blunder and this thread will be deleted.
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