Lo Sasur Yamin O Smol

Wolfish Musings had a very interesting post about the possuk "Lo Sasur Yamin O Smol" - do not deviate right or Left. Here are the pertinent parts:

Rashi, on the verse of Lo Tosur, quotes the Sifri, which states that you have to listen to the sages even "if they tell you that right is left and that left is right." Well, that is one way of looking at it. Then, there is also theYerushalmi's way of looking at it. The Yerushalmi in Horiyos (1:1) seems to state just the opposite. It states:

יכול אם יאמרו לך על ימין שהיא שמאל ועל שמאל שהיא ימין תשמע להם ת"ל ללכת ימין ושמאל שיאמרו לך על ימין שהוא ימין ועל שמאל שהוא שמאל. (one might think should [the Rabbis] tell you right is left and left is right that we should listen to them, the verse, "to go right or left" comes to tell you that [you should listen to them only] when they tell you right that is [really] right and left that is [really] left.

I would love to quote the entire post as it is ALL very pertinent. Point? Not everything a rabbi says is emes and backed up by Torah, especially if it's contrary to reality, and most especially when what some rabbi, like Segal, says something that is pure evil, like when he blamed the murder victims of Mercaz Harav for their own murders because of their "bad" "Hashkafas."