Reply To: Rav Yisroel Lau will be the guest speaker at the siyum Hashas

PBA: No, because this is precisely what Sinas Chinam in Judaism is? It doesn’t mean pure, pointless hatred. I don’t think we had that in Bayis Sheni. What we had were fights because we wouldn’t accept one another. And your point about the Gra is off because the Gra held that the Besht wasn’t a Bar Hachi of having an opinion. And if someone will say that about all Zionists (however they define the term, because there is clearly a tremendous difference in levels of “Zionism” between Rav Lau and most leading Dati L’umi Rabbanim) then they have bigger problems than just boycotting a Siyum.