[Avodah] Chilul Hasheim, Mitzvos and Aveiros

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:18:19AM -0700, saul newman wrote:
:>: 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...

:> This was asserted, not proven from sources. By taking it as a given
:> we're presuming our conclusion.

: you make  it  sound like it's an unreasonable assertion.  but how
: could it be anyother way?
: forget chumras...

But I'm saying the assertion is unreasonable BECAUSE it implies we should
include chumeros among the things that could never be a chilul hasheim
by definition!

I would think that if there is a relatively clearechoice between right
and wrong, anyone who thinks less of you for choosing right isn't
being turned off to HQBH and His Torah but are responding /because/
of already-existing disengagement with His values.

Wheread if someone has two ways to pasqen, the fact that choice A means
that people will not quite be saying "berikh shemei deH' E-laka deYisrael"
adds weight to choosing B. By being machmir in some mitzvah maasis he
is meiqil in what is often the far more significant mitzvah. And that
choice of one's own spiritual rite over bringing more people closer to
the "agudah akhas la'asos retzon[o]" could (depending upon the situation)
itself be a perversion of HQBH's Torah and a chilul hasheim.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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