Reply To: Is “shushing” the “shusher” nekama?

anon Jew – “if it not something that you designate as halacha, you pasken that you can act like a boor.”

I do not condone acting as a boor.

Don’t you know that “ain boor yerei chet” (Mishne Avos 2:5)?

Why would you think otherwise?

My Yiddishkeit includes Mentchlichkeit and Erlichkeit. At the same time, Halacha gives definition to what is considered acting as a mentch or erlich. It’s not defined by “hergesh” or “s’voras ha’beten” or by what feels right or wrong. Often “da’as ba’al ha’bayis hepech Torah”. Anyone who learned through Choshen Mishpat will be astounded that Halacha is often incompatible with what he assumed as proper dealings with his fellow in monetary matters.