Syag > do you understand the concept of casting someone off as reecha, as you flippantly remark?
please address this to RebE who is quoting Kli Yakar. I just explained his position. If I can affect someone’s thinking, I will talk to him. If I dno’t shake someone’s hand, hopefully it might shake him into thinking. Maybe not, but sometimes it is the only thing I can do.
Not to compare the magnitude: Chofetz Chaim went to a Jewish commissar who was conscripting yeshiva students on Shabbos and said – I do not expect you to do teshuva because I came, but when you come to Olam Habo, you could defend yourself saying, I lived in the same town as Chofetz Chaim and I could have done teshuva were he to tell me. So, I came to take this excuse from you.