Must one honor a Torah scholar who is involved in divisive disputes, or would doing so encourage and strengthen the dispute?

This source-based Torah study examines the question: Must one honor a Torah scholar who is involved in divisive disputes, or would doing so encourage and strengthen the dispute? The canonical Hebrew discussion develops the issue through the weekly Torah portion and the sources cited there, preserving the distinctions, tensions, and practical implications of the original text. This localized discovery layer does not add any new halakhic, medical, legal, scientific, historical, theological, or empirical ruling or claim beyond the canonical Hebrew source.