[Avodah] Sinas Hinam

[Celejar]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:26:03 -0700 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
wrote [on Areivim]:

> I think the one greatest cheit that has prevented the ge'ulah so far
> is our fascination of what yenem is doing to prevent the ge'ulah.
> That's the sin'as chinam of the gemara: when we each care more about
> how bad the other is, than we do about cleaning our own houses.
> 
> 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.

You are implying that the hatred of the Perushim for the Zedukim is
(included) in what Hazal meant by Sinas Hinam.  I've often wondered
about this; do you have a source?  Even the Netziv, in his famous
introduction to Sefer Bereishis ("Sefer Hayashar") in Ha'amek Davar
only goes as far as alleging that Sinas Hinam means the *unjust*
vilification of the hater's ideological opponents as Zedukim and
heretics:

Al kein mipnei sinas hinam she'bilibam zeh es zeh hashdu es mi sherau
shenoheg shelo keda'atam be'yiras hashem shehu zeduki ve'apikorus

Yitzhak
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