What is to be done when a neighbor avoids and turns away from conversation, despite not having been ill-treated, and the relationship was superficial?
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The forbidden abandonment is the deliberate refusal to greet upon meeting due to animosity, and it ceases with a mere greeting. If the abandonment, by way of not greeting, is from your neighbor and not from you, then there is no sin upon you.
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