[Avodah] Chilul Hasheim, Mitzvos and Aveiros

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:21pm -0700, R Saul Newman replied to something
I wrote on Areivim:
:>                            .... A qiddush hasheim requires someone doing
:> Hashem's Will and thereby attracting people to it. A person can't make
:> a qiddush hasheim by committing an issur.

: and the converse, also true , one can't commit a chillul hashem by doing a
: mitzva...

By fulfilling a chiyuv or avoiding an issur, yes. But is it truly
impossible for someone to commit a chilul hasheim for doing a
non-mandatory or conditionally obligatory mitzvah when the condition
could have been avoided at no spiritual loss?

What about chumeros? Commiting to a chumerah is a positive thing, and
following through, a mitzvah. But are you asserting it's impossible
to cause a chilul hasheim for choosing that chumerah over observers'
impression of Hashem and His Torah?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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