Kav ha-yosher (The Just Measure)
Zvi Hirsch Koidanover
1705
King Solomon, of blessed memory, wrote in Proverbs that one ought not to be too pious and one ought not to do too much evil. [The allusion, however, is to Ecclesiastes 7:16–17.] Accordingly, our sages have also written [Sotah 22b] that one does not have to guard himself against a really bad man who expresses his evil openly, nor against a really…
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