Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Avira,

“ One should not feel that they are frum if they abandon mitzvos, even one of them. You can show love to distant, sinful jews – whether they’re tinknos shenishbu or not – without bringing the mess into klal yisroel.”

So you keep all the mitzvos perfectly? You never fail at even one of hilchos shabbos? Shmiras einayim? Lashon hara? Etc etc?

Just yesterday I saw in Rambam that (at least in his time) if someone makes a shvuah inappropriately with Hashem’s name or kinui, he should place him under nidui privately for chillul Hashem, but remove it immediately so as not to cause others to stumble as they don’t know about the nidui. And why not make it public? Because then there are be no community as everyone will be ostracized….