Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hou2g!dcs From: dcs@hou2g.UUCP (D.SIMEN) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Mehilah Message-ID: <340@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 16:28:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.340 Posted: Tue Oct 9 16:28:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 04:56:04 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 20 From Y. (J.) Martillo: > This probably should have been posted before Yom Kipur but I would like > to request Mehilah from all who have been upset by my stating unpleasant > facts. It is a mitsva to accept an apology and to grant m'hila when requested. To say something equivalent to "I apologize for insulting you even though you are 'dreck'" is not a true request for m'hila. I am not saying that the writer did not intend this posting as a sincere request; I have no idea what goes on in his mind and will not stoop to calling him names. The posting simply seems like an opportunity to be insulting while seeming to be otherwise. I didn't believe Jesse Jackson's request for forgiveness either. The term "fact" is obviously amenable to interpretation. I, for one, am immediately ready to grant m'hila when asked in a manner that makes it clear that the requestor really means it. I am under no illusion that he cares what I think. David Y'hezqel b. Mord'kai Simen ...!homxa!hou2g!dcs