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Yaakov Yosef A
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AAQ – An interesting question whether every yid nowadays is a tinok shebnishba. Consider posters here. Regardless of which side of every argument you take, you would agree that half or more of the posters are confused in their learning. Even people who went to Jewish schools are not protected from misunderstanding of core concepts…

You are making a crucial point, which is central to the whole concept of ????? ????. The Chazon Ish (among many others, and the basis is in Chazal) basically held that the ???? ???? works in proportion to the degree of clarity a person is expected to have given the sum total of his circumstances IN HASHEM’S EYES (not qwerty’s or ujm’s). So, when we had a ??? ?????, people could be executed for some ??????, even at age 13. Not now. Certain things are ??????? ??? ?????, but unless someone is trying to physically kill someone ??? (or forcibly do certain other issurim), we don’t do that nowadays. We don’t whip people or put them in ??? anymore. So there are actual Halachic ramifications to the reduced ???? ????. None of this is meant to condone any non-Kosher behavior of any kind or degree, for ourselves or others, but we certainly don’t need to GO LOOKING for people to be ???? and criticize. ‘Go looking’ as in out of your own daled amos… I also don’t get why people are so excited to yell “there is punishment!” etc. Of course there is. Are all these chevrah so sure of their own tzidkus that they want to ‘wake up’ the ???? ???? ???? Chazal teaches ????? ??? ?? ???? ??? ????? ?????. Who needs that? And to do so NOW, when millions of Yidden are in real danger, is just vulgar and insensitive, and according to the Chafetz Chaim (based on the Zohar) downright dangerous. So who needs these debates?