Rage ATM wrote on 03 Dec 2009 19:48:
This is what ribi yehuda in the mishna in Kiddusin, pey bet, says about the various professions:
רבי יהודה אומר משמו החמרין רובן רשעים והגמלין רובן כשרין הספנין רובן חסידים טוב שברופאים לגיהנם והכשר שבטבחים שותפו של עמלק
so is rabbi schlachter the best of the doctors?
Why defend him? Rage has a point:
Maybe it's
worthwhile to go to gehinom, if on the way there you'll help schlep a few other folks
out of gehinom.
(In fact, per Rav Yosef Chayim, zt"l, the Gm' in Berachos indicates that many tzaddikim go through gehinom just for that express purpose...and
he wasn't even chassidish!)