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Q&A: Is it permitted to curse the Haredim?

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Is it permitted to curse the Haredim?

Question

'Curse Meroz, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the warriors.'
Deborah the prophetess repeatedly places a curse on the Jews of Meroz because they did not come to fight.
Are we also permitted to define the Haredim as cursed?

Answer

I don’t know what it means to define them as cursed. They are of course not okay.

Discussion on Answer

Shmuel (2024-11-29)

Our rabbi Michi, may he live long and well, taught us that a person should be judged according to his own approach, and since the Haredim act according to their view that the army is a place of spiritual danger (a view that fits reality fairly well), and therefore it is forbidden for someone on a high spiritual level to enlist, it follows that they are not cursed but at most mistaken.

Amitzuriel (2024-11-29)

Even if they have wonderful reasons not to enlist, it is their duty to find alternatives and solutions (for example, volunteering to wash stairwells, demanding that a higher tax be legislated for them, refraining from voting for the Knesset, using their enormous political power vis-à-vis the army to reduce the spiritual danger, etc.). Their absolute and hair-splitting parasitism makes them miserable cursed people and thieves to a very great degree.

Michi (2024-11-29)

Our rabbi also instructed, in that very same column, that a person may be judged based on his positions if in our assessment he should have understood that he was mistaken. The fact that you declare some position does not constitute a complete exemption. The Nazis also had a position.

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