After hearing a well-known Rabbi give a fiery
derashah against the secular Jews in Eretz Yisrael,
Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz] expressed his
displeasure with the tone of the speech.
“True, is it hard for us to reach the ahavas Yisrael
of Reb Yitzchak Levi of Berditchev,” he said,
“but we are commanded to keep far away
from hatred of our fellow Jews.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 16, page 229) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965