[Avodah] Sinas Hinam

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 8/23/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:26:03 -0700 I wrote to Areivim:
> :> The Tzeduqim in the days of bayis sheini were bad. We know they sent
> :> malshinim to the Romans, they sent people to lie to Sanhedrin about
> :> qiddush hachodesh, they were anti-Yahadus and cost us lives. So how
> :> is hating or one of the other movements "chinam"? It is because if
> :> our hatred were fueled by ahavas Hashem, we would be investing more
> :> effort in vilifying our own chata'im than in vilifying theirs, and
> :> them for embracing those chata'im as positive values.
>
> Sin'as chinam is usually taken to be causeless, meichinam. My post led
> to a discussion here of whether sin'as chinam include sin'ah that has
> a cause, but is lechinam, purposeless.
>
>
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -mi



See The Mishna Brura re: "mal'igim alav " [siman aleph]

AISI you ARE permittedto hate people  who act in a certain way, but first
you have to give them private hochacha. It's kind of like eidim giving
hasra'ah.  You have to be sure that the person is acting with malice  - or
at least conviction - and is not really a shoggeg and does not know better.

When Hazal attacked Tzadokim they probably had their share of disuccoins at
least with the group in general.

Whne WE hate a given Jew for being a member of a group, we often do not take
the time to discern if the INDIVIDUAL is guilty of suspected behavior or
not.  Hating this person w/o INVESTING th time and effort required to make
such a discernment first is lechinam, It's FREE. You have not gone through
proper the hoops and therefore have not paid the price.

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