[Avodah] Chilul Hasheim, Mitzvos and Aveiros

[saul newman]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> 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? ...

No. It has been previously pointed out on one or both of the lists,
that regardless of the revulsion a mitzva causes in either the eyes of
jews/goyim, it can't be a chillul hashem by definition.... But that
such acts cause great revulsion/hate for jews/Hasem/certain sects of
jews is an undeniable fact -- so maybe it's a paradox.

It must be, since the tora promises that others will see you and fear
you as a consequence of your mitzva performance, there must be something
lacking in our avoda....