[HANASHIR:15423] RE: Dealing with Fools

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

I was wondering when this would be mentioned. But speak to the cantor, as
many have said.

> From: Sholom Simon <sholom (at) aishdas(dot)org>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:06:08 -0400 (EDT)
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15412] RE: Dealing with Fools
> 
>> To tell the conductor to his face, or in front of others, that he is
>> incompetent, is probably not the best way of handling this.
> 
> Probably?!?!  The Talmud tells us that publically embarrassing somebody is
> akin to murder!  (Privately embarrassing somebody is pretty serious, too).
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> The Talmud also tells us that how we judge others is how _we_ are judged
> by HaShem -- something to think about during these 10 days of judgement.
> 
> So: the guy has problems, and he's not good at what he does.  Perhaps if
> we feel compassion for him, feel _sorry_ for him, and _then_ try to work
> on a solution, it might help.
> 
> -- Sholom
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