[Avodah] spitting / sinat chinam

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Wed Dec 28 02:33:44 PST 2011


On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 05:21:50AM +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
> So going by the second definition, what would an example of sina which  
> is not chinam?

Hating someone out to destroy you or your fealty to the Torah, which
motivates one not to emulate them, and to actively fight them.

You are allowed to hate someone guilty of hating the Borei, for example.
(I write "guilty of" rather than "who hates", to avoid tinoq shenishba
tangents.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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