Q&A: Looking at the Face of a Wicked Person
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Looking at the Face of a Wicked Person
Question
Is what appears in the Talmud — “It is forbidden to look at the face of a wicked person” — a halakhic prohibition, or just a proper practice that whoever wants may observe and whoever does not, does not? And how can one know that?
Answer
My impression is that it is not a prohibition. It is hard to give criteria, but it seems to me that this is also the common practice.