To Yaakov Yosef A
I thank you for clarifying the pertinent Gemara however there are three rebuttals to your statement. Number one, Rabbi Friedman said, “No Jew can be punished no matter what he does.” It’s not my job to figure out what he meant. If you don’t believe he said this look at the video. Second Rabbi Feldman clearly understood this as Kefirah. Third, and this is the most powerful response. Hillel taught us the Golden Rule, “Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.” This is universal and so you can’t attribute theft, or murder to the exile. No, Friedman isn’t looking for a Heter for himself rather he’s telling the irreligious that he deals with that there are no consequences of one sins. I know you won’t be moved by what I say because you are like most posters. You don’t care about the truth you just want to win the argument. But the facts are the facts. There is still punishment in this world and there will always be.