[Avodah] Chillul HaShem when NJ are the observers

[Zev Sero]

Further to my previous post:

The Malbim asks how the angels could eat Avraham's food.  It's easy to
understand how they could *pretend* to eat, but the Torah says that they
actually ate, and to eat ("le'echol") means to derive sustenance.  How
could the angels do that?  He answers that these angels were created by
Avraham's chessed, and so they were sustained by that chessed.  They may
have pretended to physically eat the food, by putting it in their mouths
and making it disappear; but at the same time they really did "eat" the
sentiment with which it was given.  Then he explains that since they were
all mal'achim of chessed, their missions were also ones of chessed; to
tell Sarah the good news, to heal Avraham, to rescue Lot -- and to
destroy Sedom!  How is that chessed?  Yes, chessed includes destroying
anti-chessed.  Sedom is to chessed as antimatter is to matter, and
it is davka chessed that annihilates it.

Ditto for kiddush and chilul haShem.  Creating a negative feeling in
someone whose values are reversed is a kiddush haShem, and creating a
positive feeling in him is a chilul haShem.

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