Feif Un:
I hear what you’re saying, but I think the people who know care about doing averios will be trying their best to stay away from this anyway, and the people who don’t care were doing it anyway.
Health:
1. Even though the world was destroyed, Noach who was not mishtatef, wasn’t. Maybe my problem is that I don’t care what happens to goyim.
2. I think the problem is that they didn’t search for help and support from rabbonim. I’m sure a taivah like that is unimaginably hard to deal with, without proper support. If they weren’t getting it, I wouldn’t be surprised that they would be poirek ol.
I just want to add, that I don’t support these things in anyway. I’m just talking from my own (probably krum) sevarah. I am not saying that toeivah is fine, because there is no rationalizing it. Its an aveira period. I just think that those that were being oiver until now, will continue to be oiver and those that weren’t still won’t.
The only way this would be a problem to me, is if more Yidden would be oiver because of this law. And I don’t understand why that should be the case at this point.
Ben Levi:
I don’t have a Medrash Rabbah where I am now, so I’m using the one at HebrewBooks. According to the Medrash there, siman yud is on the pasuk about esav coming out red and it talks about the geulah and beis hamikdash. Nothing about toeivah.