A famous rabbi told me once that if someone is mean to you, you should not talk to them.
He was an idiot.
One should not sever ties with Gods children no matter who they may be unless they are clearly guilty of a physical crime against your well being.
To shun someone for mocking you, ridiculing you, smearing you or confronting you is to shun God himself.
I believe that the proper way to deal with antisocial and angry mean behavior is to STOP WALKING with that person, both figuratively and literally.
This way you still can show them what is true and right and you can stop from being their friend.
Just stopping talking with someone does not mean you have denied them friendship. It denies yourself your own friendship with Hashem. For what someone does to you in weakness or in hatred or in jealousy or other poor or wicked sense is yours to dispell and yours to respond to in any fashion you merit just.
So don't walk with the enemy.
Talk to him.
Then you do what the bible refers to giving him a meal.
And that will reap hot coals upon his head.
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