[Avodah] More on What Constitutes Chillul Hashem?

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:47:05PM -0400, Yitzchok Levine wrote:
: There is a section on Chillul Hashem in RSRH's Horeb. See 
: http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/horeb_chillul_hashem.pdf

: From this it seems to me that any action or deed, whether illegal or 
: legal, that in any way casts anything negative on Judaism is a Chillul 
: Hashem.

So acting Jewish - which to some people is intrinsically negative no matter
what - is a Chillul Hashem? 

Obviously, that's taking it ad absurdum, but it's true - you ain't gonna
please everyone. At a certain point, you have to think about Hashem, instead
of Mah Yomru Habrios, like Shulchan Aruch says in Siman 1. 

KT,
MYG