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Angered by the media's interest in the rabbi angle, local Hasidim offered semantic rebuttals ("everybody in this community is a rabbi"), Talmudic hairsplitting (the principal culprit wasn't a real rabbi because he didn't head a synagogue), and angst (who will tell the bad news to the aged chief rabbi?)
But K's indignant objection to hairsplitting a decade ago and his indignant sympathy for it now took no account of such nice distinctions.
K was working on an article--and working himself up into a fine froth--on the subject of legal "hairsplitting."