I think that the fact that someone appreciates the importance of a gadol hador’s contribution to the entire klal as being greater than his own protiyus is an incredible maalah. In shamayim it might not be true, but to judge from what we know here, I can’t understand how one could not sympathize with this man’s feelings.
Interesting.
Were I to make a statement like that, I would be bashed down with “the Torah isn’t about feelings and mushiness but about halacha and what’s right.” But when it comes to this, all of sudden we get something along the lines of “it’s all right because his heart is in the right place.”
The Wolf