[Avodah] Sinas Chinam - Netziv's understanding

[Ken Bloom]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:20:22 -0400
Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe at 012.net.il> wrote:

> The Netziv has a well known position that the sinas chinom of the
> Second Temple was the assumption that anybody who either sinned or
> had a different understanding of halacha/hashgofa was labeled as a
> tzadoki and sentenced to death.

The Vilna Gaon in Sefer Even Shlomo (Emunah v'hashgacha) says the same
thing. R' Dovid Castle discusses these sources and other forms of hatred
in his sefer "To Live Among Friends: Laws and Ethics of Everyday
Interactions" (in English).

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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