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is he bad because he does bad things? what if he doesn’t know any better? what if he thought what is bad is ok? is he still a rasha?
Tinok Shenishba.
one who goes against the torah, sins, and indulges in forbidden pleasures of life. All this of course if he does so knowingly, and with full knowledge that it is wrong.
For goyim, those immoral people who continue to violate and transgress the 7 mitzvos m’bnei Noach.
sidi-it wasnt funny, and it wasnt nice
Some of the earlier posts… Thanks in advance.
Kapusta: please what?
Is this related to the drop a friend post where as someone said my friends friend is a rasha and my friend didn’t mean it that way at all…?
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I think she disliked my joke…
SiDi™
That was a JOKE? Seriously please don’t post jokes on serious threads unless you are Zeeskite or PBA, cuz no one ever beleives them anyways…..speaking of Zeeskite.. where is SHE?
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I was referring to another post as well…
If you willfully try to nullify one of the 613 commandments, e.g. continuously pray to a false god about rebuilding a city defiled by idolatry within the last yovel period, then you might be a rasha.
Actions do not determine rishus. Rishus is determined by a mindset.
Actions do not determine rishus. Rishus is determined by a mindset.
Actions DO determine rishus.
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Why should a ‘potential rasha’ be called a rasha? What is your hava mina? A rasha is one who DOES avairos. period. Please explain yourself.
I’d suggest listening to the shiurim of R’ Boruch Simon on YUTorah from the past 2 weeks or so- he addresses issues of who is a rasha b’zman hazeh and more recently looks into who is really pasul l’edus b’zman hazeh.
More broadly, he is giving shiur on inyanim in ein adam meisim atzmo rasha.
A Rasha is an individual who does evil for the sake of doing evil.
And goyim that violate their little set of Noahides.
A person that ‘stole’ instead of starving to death is not necessarily a bad person. Just someone who had a challenge. He didn’t steal for the sake of stealing, he stole for the sake of surviving. There is a difference. (And no, I never had that challenge)
Lapid.
Let G-d decide.
sharp, someone who stole to survive did nothing wrong.
Anyone who disagrees with me or my rabbi is a rasha
TKND:
Exactly. That’s why he’s not a Rasha. His survival instincts kicked in. Who said otherwise?
No, he’s not a rasha because li’halacha you are allowed to steal to save a life.
I agree. And it’s not considered stealing, that’s why I used quotation marks. I quoted a previous poster.
Avi Weiss.
A rasha is that guy who leans his entire body against the pole in a subway car when it’s crowded to capacity.
A rasha tries to win an argument by being louder than you.
A rasha does not make breaks between paragraphs.
A rasha puts pepper in the salt shaker and then loosens the top.
A rasha takes your armrest during a long flight and then falls asleep on you.
A rasha occupies two parking spots.
A rasha eats all the red jellybeans in the bag.
A rasha takes all the cheese off his pizza.
A rasha has loud cell phone conversations in the bathroom.
A rasha sings a lot of slow tunes when he is chazan for mussaf.
Hope this helps.
A Rosha is someone who purposely violates Torah him or herself, and so hates Torah that he or she will do everything the can think of to prevent others from living a Torah-centered life as well. When such people do act as if they have respect for Torah observance, it’s merely a ploy to get the Torah observer to let down their guard to the Torah hater can more easily succeed in his or her newest offensive against Torah.
tzaddiq
Three points:
1) Hashem only puts a person in a trying situation if he can handle it. If he will not be able to overcome the nisayon, then Hashem wouldn’t present that nisayon for him.
2) In these difficult times, it is incumbant on every person to LEARN A MUSSAR SEFER during the week. To be mechazek, to build our character, and to steer us on to the correct path of life.
3) If he didn’t DO it, he’s not accounted for. Bad intentions don’t count if he didn’t DO it. So, no, he would not be in the catagory of a rasha.
It says machshava tova c’maayseh. The same is not true about the opposite. In fact, if it is harder for him to resist, he’ll be punished for doing it less than for someone who could have easily resisted.
He is born with a challenge and it is his job to overcome it and learn how to deal with it, channel it, hamper it, cry about it, do Teshuva for it and look for options. Hashem knows the heart and has patients. We have to try to help. The person is a Rasha when, instead of dealing with it, he becomes proud of it and makes it his Shita.
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@tzaddiq: R’ Tatz expounds on this extensively (I read it in The Thinking Jewish Teenager’s Guide to Life), but I will try to put it in a few sentences.
If someone is, say, a kleptomaniac. He can’t control his impulses to steal. Does he have free will in this area of his life? Is he found liable in her country’s legal system? Probably not. He can’t control his inborn trait to steal. In Judaism however, the “system” works completely different. The urge may very well be outside his area of free will/freedom but the action of stealing is within his free choice. The point of free will is whether he yields to his nature or not.
Bottom line is: You can’t control your background, inborn nature, character traits, and many events that will ultimately affect what type of ordeals you have to overcome. You can blame whatever or whoever you want for the fact that you came across this ordeal, but how you handle the ordeal is your doing entirely, your free will.
Technically, a Conservodox is as much a Rasha as a Conservative and Reformist. But keeping all laws is difficult.
a wicked person; the opposite of the “Tzaddik,” the righteous person. This individual rejects the Kingship of HaShem, rejects the Mitzvot, the Commandments, and rejects the Morality of the Torah, thinking he can define it on his own. Generally, the “Rasha” is concerned only about his own interests, rather than about the “zulat,” the other. He or she remove themselves from the larger community, be it the Jewish community or the general community.
Lost: Of course not. The more Mitzvos and fewer Aveiros that one does, the less of a Rasha they are. They might still be a Rasha, but they are certainly less of one (I feel like the Gemara in either Yevamos or Sanhedrin 32b says like this).
Thank you. I hope to reach at least Conservadox level of observance — I do not know when I can do more.
Someone who uses a cattle prod, is a rasha.
Achosid,
I guess you are referring to someone like Temple Grandin who recommends its use periodically on recalcitrant animals who need a good zap to get moving.
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