A valued friend privately messaged me to take issue with my personal insult to Yosef Mizrachi in a previous post.
He felt it was in conflict with the overarching principle of politeness in the Religious way.
I agree with the importance of politeness (although Lord knows my tongue sometimes gets ahead of my filter, mea culpa) but.
But.
There is a certain fire reserved for those who mislead, harass, and abuse others in the name of the Torah, worshipping their ego and claiming divine blessing.
That fire awaits not every man, not every rabbi, but those rabbis whose words and actions profane the Torah.
The profaning of the Name is too great to bear, the wicked must be cut back down to size not for their punishment but to correct in the minds of all witnesses the distortion of truth, love, and reality that the wicked caused in the normalization of their wickedness.
For years and years, Yosef Mizrachi has spread hate and ignorance, making himself into a substitute for God. The public must awaken: he and people like him are not gods but men, and lowly men at that.
I use insulting terms in regards to Mizrachi not to gratify my own ego or to “punish” him, even – but to send a message to anyone and everyone I can that the his teachings and behavior, and those of everyone like him, do not represent Torah in any way but are in fact reprehensible and debased and deserving of calumny.
May God grant us the wisdom to discern between day and night.